Chapter 11. ODP.NET Security Features

"Security" is a big word conjuring up images of hackers working away late at night in their seedy offices trying to crack through your application to get at that precious financial data. As exciting as it sounds, most developers seem to pay the least attention to security, preferring to work first on getting the flashy features of an application running.

In fact, many seasoned development teams don't even start out with any proper security plan in place; the scene of a team of developers deploying their application on a security hardened server only to find that half their application does not work because it ran afoul of the local security policies isn't uncommon. Just like you can't play poker without knowing ...

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