Operating system security /

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 im...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaeger, Trent
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [San Rafael, Calif.] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2008]
Series:Synthesis lectures on information security, privacy, and trust (Online) ; #1.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.