Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Designing a Security Strategy

Designing robust and impenetrable strategy for your portal is one of the most important and often overlooked design goals. While no one can predict all possible attacks and security risks for your site, the security options are well understood and rather straightforward to implement.

There is a widespread misconception that establishing solid security is extremely complicated. This idea stems from the fact that many security requirements are fairly new, and there is a certain latency in the way designers and developers accept and act upon changing requirements. Very often security is treated as an add-on feature of an application, to be applied after core functionality is in place. This approach is very dangerous ...