Protection mechanism

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In computer science, protection mechanisms are built into a computer architecture to support the enforcement of security policies.[1] A simple definition of a security policy is "to set who may use what information in a computer system".[1]

The access matrix model, first introduced in 1971,[2] is a generalized description of operating system protection mechanisms.[3]

The separation of protection and security is a special case of the separation of mechanism and policy.[4]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Jones 1975
  2. Lampson 1971
  3. Landwehr 1981
  4. Wulf 74 pp. 337–345

References

  • Lampson, Butler W. (1971). "Protection". Proceedings of the 5th Princeton Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. p. 437. 
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