Essential SharePoint 2013, Second Edition

Chapter 12. Planning Security

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. Planning security is also about deciding how you will “put the ‘share’ in SharePoint.” Especially for SharePoint 2013, where there are new and simplified options for sharing content, planning security involves deciding what content will be closed off all the time, but also what content will ...