From the course: Foundations of Enterprise Content Management

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Security for access and editing

- [Instructor] Okay, we've got our content and we can find it when we need it. The next question is who should be able to access it and what should they be allowed to do with it? Defining permissions and rights is another important factor that any CMS must have. Ideally this should be able to leverage any existing security and permission system in use at a business. Microsoft Active Directory is probably still the most widely used directory and authentication server today. Its security groups, officially trusts can be reused to define membership and permission groups and SharePoint. Security groups can also be set up from the Office 365 admin center. You can add entire security groups to SharePoint permissions, or you can build permission groups by email addresses so you've got the ability to create custom groups that don't mirror existing organizational or hierarchical structures. These permission groups are then used…

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