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Managing Security Policy

Levels of Security Policy

There are four levels of security policy: application domain, user, machine, and enterprise. The application domain security policy is subordinate to the user security policy, which is subordinate to the machine security policy, which in turn is subordinate to the enterprise security policy.

The Application Domain Security Policy

The application domain security policy is the result of an evaluation of security policy when an assembly is loaded by the CLR. Application domain policy is not configurable; rather, it is the security policy set applied to an assembly after each of the other three policies is evaluated.

The User Security Policy

The user security policy is the lowest level of configurable ...