Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Plain & Simple

Chapter 12. Security Within SharePoint 2010

In this section:

• Understanding SharePoint Security

• Adding People to Groups

• Creating Groups

• Granting Permissions to an Individual

• Breaking Inheritance

• Granting Access to Lists, Libraries, and Individual Items

• Removing Security

• Checking Permissions

Security for any organization is of vital importance. After all, an organization would not last long if it were unable to protect its content from unauthorized eyes.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 comes equipped with robust security measures, so you can feel confident that your content is safe. The security model in SharePoint 2010 is very flexible as well, allowing security to be applied at the level of the farm, a web application, a site collection, sites, lists and libraries, ...