IIS has its own security configuration and even for any request reaching the ASP.NET runtime, IIS verifies the request with it's own security configuration. So the first gatekeeper in the ASP.NET security pipeline is actually IIS. So let us understand those security mechanisms which IIS implements:
Authentication: IIS support following authentication mechanism
Basic authentication:Digest authenticationPassport authenticationWindow authenticationCertificate authentication
Point to remember:
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