.NET Security

From the beginning, .NET was designed and implemented with security in mind. .NET enables you to specify security permissions and policies that, when associated with an assembly, authorize or prevent users and other code from accessing your secured component. .NET combines this with COM+ security as well, so you actually have two layers of code-based security available to you.

At the same time, ASP.NET allows for impersonation. Users logging into your Web Service may impersonate a local system account. That account will be administratively granted certain levels of secure access. So, if a user attempts to access code for which he is not authorized, .NET will throw an access or permission exception and the user will receive a SOAP ...

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