Chapter 1. Access Control Systems and Methodology

OBJECTIVES

Discuss the relationship between access control and accountability.

  • With any system, there is information that you want to protect and limit who can gain access to it. Access controls are key to limiting who is allowed to do what on your system. This objective looks at various types of access control and what you can do to protect your system.

Define common access control techniques:

  • Discretionary access control

  • Mandatory access control

  • Lattice-Based access control

  • Rule-Based access control

  • Role-Based access control

  • The use of access control lists

  • As with many things, there are many ways to achieve security and many techniques to achieve proper access controls. This objective looks at the ...

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