May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
17h 18m
English
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Chapter 28. Securing Your ASP.NET Applications
IN THIS CHAPTER
- Security Through Authentication
- Security Through Authorization
- The ASP.NET Security Controls
- Advanced ASP.NET Security
“Security” is a term that is often overused and encompasses so many different topics that it can be confusing. When someone is talking about securing an application, often they are talking about things completely irrelevant to our needs. To distill the concept of security down a bit, the topic of security in this chapter is limited to just the notion of securing an ASP.NET application.
In this chapter, you will learn the important distinction between authentication and authorization. You will learn how to identify the users connecting to your websites as well as ...