Understanding File System Security
Windows Server 2012 introduced a new file system, ReFS, or Resilient File System. The file system is backward compatible with NTFS. In fact, because the focus of the updated file system is data integrity, scalability, reliability, and ease of management, security mechanisms are largely unchanged from the earlier version of the product.
Each object that is referenced in ReFS, which includes files and folders, is marked by an access control list (ACL) that physically limits who can and cannot access a resource. File and folder permissions utilize this concept to strictly control read, write, and other types of access on files.
File servers should make judicious use of file-level and folder-level permissions, and ...
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