Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Integrity

Proper information integrity involves ensuring that data cannot be added, deleted, or changed without proper authorization. The enforcement of integrity within information systems is generally provided via access control and permissions. Access controls allow well-identified users access to a given information resource. If the user is defined as having access to the resource, permissions will define what activities that user may perform on the information resource. SharePoint Server 2007 provides the opportunity to define access controls and security permissions at various configuration levels for different reasons and to accomplish different goals. With few exceptions, SharePoint Server 2007 provides access controls by granting access ...