Code Access Security and Policy in MicrosoftÂ’s .NET

Author: Steven Kovner Published March 26, 2011 from SANS

.NET is MicrosoftÂ’s new platform, oriented towards Internet-based applications and Web services. Because of its orientation towards programs loaded and run from the Internet, it was designed with security in mind. At runtime, the.NET framework can determine what permissions to allow to a block of code depending on evidence, which includes the location of the code (local disk, intranet, internet, etc.) and its publisher.

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