How is security managed in SharePoint?Authentication: SharePoint can run under various IIS modes to authenticate its users. The modes include: Anonymous, Basic, Integrated Windows or Certificates Authentication (over SSL).
Authorization: SharePoint security facilitates the regulation of access privileges of users and groups as well.
Impersonation: .NET Impersonation which is utilized by SharePoint allows an application to run under the context of the client accessing an application.
Deployment and Code Access Security: .NET Code Access Security (CAS) provides a security model. It can restrict the operations that can be performed as well as the resources that can be accessed by managed code.
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