Facilitating Site Security
EE enables complete control of user privileges at almost every point where it might be required.
Unfortunately, EE spreads this control throughout its extensive Control Panel (CP) in a way that makes it difficult to get a complete picture of "who can do what." As a result, permissions managment is maze-like and confusing and it is easy to overlook a permission here, or an access control there, with potentially serious security and/or data-protection consequences.
de Beer's HooKan module simplifies the management of both access permissions and site security.
de Beer has no claim to fame as a programming powerhouse - this is a first attempt at programming a module for ExpressionEngine.
de Beer specialises in building secure, online case-management systems for organizations tasked with managing high-risk cases. Cases such as those involving crime-prevention, mentoring of at-risk individuals, probation services and the education and training of the people who do the associated casework.
Such organizations tread a fine line in data protection between law-enforcement and/or state security agencies on the one hand, and the individuals whose cases they have to manage, on the other. User access security and the protection of sensitive information are therefore of critical importance. and de Beer needed a more effective way to manage user access permissions in order to do a better job
Having created HooKan for our own needs, we thought others might appreciate the ease with which HooKan enables permissions management
The latest version of HooKan is V1.0.2, a bug fix for loss of style when logged in via admin.php
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