Improving Web Application Security: Threats and - CGISecurity

6.NET Security OverviewIn This Chapter●●●●●●OverviewSecurity benefits of managed codeRole-based security versus code access securityPrincipals and identitiesPrincipalPermission objects.NET Framework role-based security fundamentals.NET Framework security namespacesThe Microsoft .NET Framework gives numerous techniques and a vast range of typesin the security namespaces to help you build secure code and create secure Webapplications. This chapter defines the .NET Framework security landscape by brieflyintroducing the security benefits of managed code development. This chapter alsointroduces and contrasts the two complimentary forms of security that are availableto .NET Framework applications: user security and code security. Finally, the chapterbriefly examines the security namespaces that you use to program .NET Frameworksecurity.This chapter emphasizes how .NET Framework security applies to ASP.NET Webapplications and Web services.