Chapter 8. Membership Conditions, Code Groups, and Policy Levels: The Brick and Mortar of Security Policy

By Matthew Lyons

IN THIS CHAPTER

Thus far in this section of the book, we have discussed how security impacts executing code. Hosts provide evidence when code is loaded and permissions are used to determine if executing code has the right to perform some privileged action. The point of security policy is to get us from where evidence is provided for an assembly being loaded to the position where permissions can be used to cause stack walks during execution of an application.

The point at which security policy is actively being examined is known as policy resolution. Policy ...

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