Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server

SharePoint Security Concepts

With SharePoint Portal Server, security is crucial for both document management and providing effective searching. The foundation of document management security is the ability to selectively restrict access to confidential or sensitive information while controlling the change, approval, and publication processes.

This chapter discusses planning and managing SharePoint Portal Server security.

Information security is typically used to provide three types of protection:

• Protection against user error

• Protection against unauthorized access to information

• Protection against malicious attacks and behavior

Within SharePoint Portal Server, most security configuration and management functions are performed at the folder-level ...