Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning

Chapter 8. Planning Your Security Model

Planning security for your solution is about balancing and optimizing the various security elements for all of the people who will use the solution, including content contributors, content users, and administrators who manage and maintain security groups. It also involves defining a model that works for the current business requirements but is also defined well enough to grow and be altered as requirements and content change. There is no single best way to design security and manage security groups. Each business scenario is different. Because the risks associated with getting your security model wrong are pretty big—two main issues come to mind: 1) not allowing appropriate access and 2) allowing inappropriate ...