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Computer Security Art and Science, 2nd Edition
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Computer Security Art and Science, 2nd Edition

by Matt Bishop
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1440 pages
48h 29m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2

Access Control Matrix

GRANDPRÉ: Description cannot suit itself in wordsTo demonstrate the life of such a battleIn life so lifeless as it shows itself.

The Life of Henry the Fifth, IV, ii, 53–55.

A protection system describes the conditions under which a system is secure. This chapter presents a classical formulation of a protection system. The access control matrix model arose both in operating systems research and in database research; it describes allowed accesses using a matrix.

2.1 Protection State

The state of a system is the collection of the current values of all memory locations, all secondary storage, and all registers and other components of the system. The subset of this collection that deals with protection is the ...

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ISBN: 9780134097145