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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[San Rafael, Calif.] :
Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
[2008]
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| 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.