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Security
Devising a proper security strategy is a key part of any distributed application, particularly a large-scale
web application that’s exposed over the public Internet. In this book, you’ll find no less than eight
chapters that cover ASP.NET security features.
In Chapter 19, you’ll begin with a high-level overview of three security fundamentals:
authentication, authorization, and confidentiality. Once you have this perspective in mind, you’re ready
to consider ASP.NET’s two key systems for authenticating users: forms authentication (Chapter 20),
which provides a simple yet flexible framework for securing a public website, ...