From the course: SharePoint 2013 Security for Users
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From the course: SharePoint 2013 Security for Users
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- We've covered a lot of material, but remember, this course is not about security in the context of hardening a SharePoint environment or manipulating firewalls to block hackers from the network. It is about security for users, in other words, permissions. It is about the way that access controls work for content in our site collections. We want to remember that the site collection has a top-level site and, depending on which template that site was created with, the default SharePoint security groups with their default permission levels will set the framework from which we can build the access for users to do what they need to do in the content in our sites, lists, libraries, folders and individual items within those lists and libraries and folders. We've seen how the permissions flow naturally down from the top-level site of the site collection to every level in the hierarchy, and we've seen how we can actually break that inheritance and create unique permissions when the situation…