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What Is Involved in Securing Applications?

These days, whenever a new technology platform is released, or even if a major upgrade is released, the question of how secure it is comes up frequently. The question is valid in this Internet-enabled distributed-computing age; it is quite common to see scenarios where applications are either accessed remotely within the company's intranet, within the company's trusted partner's extranet, or by the general customers, through the Internet. This notion of having applications accessed by outsiders highlights the need for security, to prevent a security attack on important or private information. In particular, typical security requirements of a .NET application can be divided into the following categories: ...