MPLS VPN Security

Other Important Security Concepts 11

Principle of the Least Privilege

Because human mistakes are an important security risk, the most secure way to design

systems is to provide every operator only the authorization strictly required to perform the

job. This is called the principle of the least privilege. The idea is that every privilege an

operator or user has might lead to potential security breaches, and that therefore every

privilege must be monitored and controlled. The less an operator is authorized to do, the

less control and monitoring needs must be done and the smaller the overall risk of security

problems.

In this area, MPLS networks do ...