Operating system security
By: Jaeger, Trent.
Contributor(s): Morgan & Claypool Publishers.
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BookSeries: Synthesis lectures on information security, privacy and trust: #1.Publisher: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, 1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2008Description: 1 electronic document (xviii, 218 p.) : digital file.ISBN: 9781598292138 (electronic bk.); 9781598292121 (pbk.).Uniform titles: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Subject(s): Operating systems (Computers) | Computers -- Access control | Computer security | Operating systems | Reference monitor | Mandatory access control | Secrecy | Integrity | Virtual | Machines | Security kernels | Capabilities | Access control lists | Multilevel security | Policy lattice | AssuranceDDC classification: 005.8 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource | Abstract with links to full text Also available in print.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-204) and index.
Introduction -- Access control fundamentals -- Multics -- Security in ordinary operating systems -- Verifiable security goals -- Security kernels -- Securing commercial operating systems -- Case study: solaris trusted extensions -- Case study: building a secure operating system for linux -- Secure capability systems -- Secure virtual machine systems -- System assurance -- Bibliography -- Biographies -- Index.
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Operating systems provide the fundamental mechanisms for securing computer processing. Since the 1960s, operating systems designers have explored how to build "secure" operating systems -- operating systems whose mechanisms protect the system against a motivated adversary. Recently, the importance of ensuring such security has become a mainstream issue for all operating systems. In this book, we examine past research that outlines the requirements for a secure operating system and research that implements example systems that aim for such requirements. For system designs that aimed to satisfy these requirements, we see that the complexity of software systems often results in implementation challenges that we are still exploring to this day. However, if a system design does not aim for achieving the secure operating system requirements, then its security features fail to protect the system in a myriad of ways.We also study systems that have been retrofit with secure operating system features after an initial deployment. In all cases, the conflict between function on one hand and security on the other leads to difficult choices and the potential for unwise compromises. From this book, we hope that systems designers and implementors will learn the requirements for operating systems that effectively enforce security and will better understand how to manage the balance between function and security.
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