Chapter 19. Authentication and authorization infrastructure

No real solution today can ignore the topics of authentication and authorization. Microsoft SharePoint 2013 takes security seriously and provides a modern and powerful set of tools, as well as a solid architecture, for supporting claims-based authentication and authorization. The native support for claims opens SharePoint 2013 to integration with third-party platforms as well as single-sign-on scenarios.

In this first chapter of Part VI you will dig into the main topics about authentication and authorization in SharePoint 2013. In particular, you will learn about claims-based authentication, as well as the old classic authentication mode, which is still available for the sake of backward ...

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