Building Blocks of Secure Applications

Most web sites and portals require the ability to identify users and protect the resources kept on the site. Even when allowing anonymous users to browse the information on your portal site, you still have to guard against intruders trying to take control of the internal resources of your site.

Building secure sites requires careful up-front planning and a clear understanding of the available options. The good news is that ASP.NET, in conjunction with Internet Information Server (IIS) and SQL Server, provides many out-of-the-box security features that require little or no coding and are easily configurable by administrators using wizards. The .NET Framework security model provides the ability to have low-level ...

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