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2 strategies to define permissions : forbid everything vs allow everything
Posted by z Jean-jacques Jouanneaux on 22 August 2013 05:51 PM

Authorizations define what a user can do in an application:

Basically, you define what the user is allowed to see, do and modify in the application.

You need to choose between two ways of defining authorizations: 

• The most secure way is to forbid everything by default, and then grant permissions to open possibilities. This way, if you forget to define a permission, the user won’t be able to do something he should, rather than accidentally do something he shouldn't.

• The faster way is to allow everything by default, and then you assign restrictions to forbid some actions. This way is faster because typically there are fewer restrictions than permissions. 

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