Access Controls
Lauren Collins, kCura Corporation
1 Infrastructure Weaknesses: DAC, MAC, and RBAC
The dichotomy between types of companies and implementing layers of security led to the use of three types of access control mechanisms: discretionary access control, mandatory access control, and role-based access control.
Discretionary Access Control
Discretionary access control (DAC), also known as file permissions, is the access control in Unix and Linux systems. Whenever you have seen the syntax drwxr-xs-x, it is the ugo abbreviation for owner, group, and other permissions in the directory listing. Ugo is the abbreviation for user access, group access, and other system user’s access, respectively. These file permissions are set to ...
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