Overview
SharePoint provides a convenient and easy-to-use ACL-based security model you can use within a document library that allows you to control who has access to any document—including who may see that it exists, who may read it and who may edit it.
In most cases, the content you publish into an Internet site is public. Sometimes, however, certain segments of content in the publication library need to be restricted to specific individuals or user groups exactly in the same way the source file is protected in the document library. While this capability is infrequently used in an Internet site implementation, it is often a large and important part of an Intranet or portal implementation that serves diverse user groups internally and externally.
Hyper.Net provides you with the ability to use SharePoint’s built-in security model to protect not only the source documents in a document library, but also their corresponding publications in a publication library. To ensure the greatest possible flexibility, the paradigm for doing this is two-sided. This means that instead of simply propagating the security model of the authoring side in the document library into the end-user content in the publication library, Hyper.Net allows you to implement a separate security model in each location. The organization is thus enabled to specify one set of access privileges for the authoring team and a completely different one for end-users browsing and reading content.