s stated above, ASP.NET and IIS securities go hand in hand. Therefore ASP.NET authentication also relies on the settings that we make in IIS. ASP.NET offers following types of authentications: Authentication: the process of validating the identity of a user to allow or deny a request [4,9,10]. This involves accepting credentials ...

According to MSDN, "When using impersonation, ASP.NET applications can optionally execute with the identity of the client on whose behalf they are operating. The usual reason for doing this is to avoid dealing with authentication and authorization issues in the ASP.NET application code. Instead, you rely on Microsoft Internet Information ...