C# Unleashed

Chapter 38. Securing Code

In This Chapter

• Code-Based Security

• Role-Based Security

• Security Utilities

The .NET security model introduces a significant security enhancement, referred to as code-based security. The need for code-based security has grown out of recent years' experience in which foreign code is accessible and downloadable to computers from diverse sources throughout the Internet. Code-based security makes a system more secure by limiting the ability of code to perform specified actions.

Traditional role-based security is also a major component of the .NET security model. Role-based security controls the capability of agents or individuals to perform actions on a computing system. The security types are managed by specific policies, ...