Mechanisms necessary to control the access of programs or users to the resources defined by a computer system
The goals of protection in an operating system are:
- To prevent
malicious misuse of the system by users or programs
- To ensure each
shared resource is used only in accordance with system policies
- To ensure errant
programs cause the minimal amount of damage
To maximize security, programs, users and systems
should be given just enough privileges to perform their tasks. This helps
ensure failures will result in the least amount of harm done. An access matrix
is a model of protection in which columns represent different system resources
and rows represent protection domains. Cells within the matrix indicate what
access that domain has to that resource.
References
Silberschatz, A., Galvin, P. B., & Gagne, G. (2014). Operating system concepts essentials (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://redshelf.com/
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