silverstripe-framework/docs/en/02_Developer_Guides/09_Security/index.md

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title: Security
summary: This guide covers user authentication, the permission system and how to secure your code against malicious behaviors
icon: user-shield
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# Security and User Authentication

This guide covers using and extending the user authentication in SilverStripe, permissions, user groups and roles, and 
how to secure your code against malicious behaviors of both your users and hackers.

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## How to's

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			`title: Security`
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NEW: Update docs to be compliant with Gatsby site (#9314) * First cut * Temporarily disable composer.json for netlify build * POC * New recursive directory query, various refinements * Fix flexbox * new styled components plugin * Apply frontmatter delimiters * Mobile styles, animation * Search * Redesign, clean up * Nuke the cache, try again * fix file casing * Remove production env file * ID headers * Move app to new repo * Add frontmatter universally * Hide children changelogs * Add how to title * New callout tags * Revert inline code block change * Replace note callouts * Fix icons * Repalce images * Fix icon * Fix image links * Use proper SQL icon 2019-11-18 05:58:33 +01:00			`icon: user-shield`
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Add introduction files to each of the sections 2014-09-21 02:07:58 +02:00
Clean up debugging documentation 2014-10-13 10:52:19 +02:00			`This guide covers using and extending the user authentication in SilverStripe, permissions, user groups and roles, and`
			`how to secure your code against malicious behaviors of both your users and hackers.`
Add introduction files to each of the sections 2014-09-21 02:07:58 +02:00
Clean up debugging documentation 2014-10-13 10:52:19 +02:00			`[CHILDREN Exclude=How_to]`

			`## How to's`

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