In computer security, mandatory access control (MAC) refers to a type of access control by which a secured environment (e.g., an operating system or a...
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Smack (software) (redirect from Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel)
Smack (full name: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel) is a Linux kernel security module that protects data and process interaction from malicious...
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AppArmor (category Linux kernel features)
discretionary access control (DAC) model by providing mandatory access control (MAC). It has been partially included in the mainline Linux kernel since version...
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Security-Enhanced Linux (redirect from Access vector cache)
a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including mandatory access controls (MAC). SELinux...
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role-based access control (RBAC) or role-based security is an approach to restricting system access to authorized users, and to implementing mandatory access control...
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Darwin (operating system) (redirect from Darwin (kernel))
Windows software on Darwin. SEDarwin was a port of TrustedBSD mandatory access control framework and portions of the SELinux framework to Darwin. It was...
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Netfilter (category Linux kernel features)
general-purpose filtering (firewalling). security_filter module Used for Mandatory Access Control (MAC) networking rules, such as those enabled by the SECMARK and...
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DragonFly BSD (section Kernel)
share certain resources among various kernel tasks. In order to run safely on multiprocessor machines, access to shared resources (like files, data structures)...
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A kernel is a component of a computer operating system. It serves as an intermediary connecting software to hardware, enabling them to work together seamlessly...
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non-serializing MSRs". linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Mailing list). "git commit: x86/barrier: Do not serialize MSR accesses on AMD". Linux kernel Git repository. November...
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File locking (redirect from List of software for accessing open files)
Microsoft Corporation. Retrieved 2020-07-05. "Mandatory File Locking for the Linux Operating System". kernel.org. Documentation / File Systems. Retrieved...
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OpenVMS (redirect from Application Control Management System)
between the Kernel, which consists of the code which runs at the kernel access mode, and the less-privileged code outside of the Kernel which runs at...
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fully automatic mode, although it can be turned off again through Windows Control Panel. Some full scans took more than an hour on infected systems; a scan...
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The kernel, device drivers, services, Security Accounts Manager, and user interfaces can all use the registry. The registry also allows access to counters...
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NTFS (category File systems supported by the Linux kernel)
privileges. Windows Vista adds mandatory access control info to DACLs. DACLs are the primary focus of User Account Control in Windows Vista and later. The...
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stability. Also, printer drivers in kernel mode are not supported. User-mode drivers are not able to directly access the kernel but use it through a dedicated...
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access to those locations. However, buffer underruns are much less common than buffer overruns. Windows Vista introduces Mandatory Integrity Control to...
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2010. Retrieved August 22, 2010. Simplified Specification Agreement Archived 2008-10-28 at the Wayback Machine "Simplified Specification" (PDF). Archived...
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improve the speed of recovery and is the default congestion control algorithm in Linux 3.2+ kernels. TCP Cookie Transactions (TCPCT) is an extension proposed...
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Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (category Content-control software)
management features. The rules based configuration was also considerably simplified over ISA Server 2000 version. ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition included...
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Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), and Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) are the three security certification programs developed...
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CPUID (redirect from Indirect Branch Control)
machine-readable CPUID repository". Linux Kernel Mailing List archive. Retrieved 20 July 2024. "AMD64 Technology Indirect Branch Control Extension" (PDF) (White paper)...
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default Arch Linux kernel contains nonfree proprietary blobs, hence the distribution is not endorsed by the GNU project. The linux-libre kernel can be installed...
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Android (operating system) (category Operating systems based on the Linux kernel)
Android is an operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen-based...
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new installations of Windows 10 on systems with Secure Boot enabled, all kernel-mode drivers issued after July 29, 2015, must be digitally signed with an...
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Windows Vista networking technologies (redirect from Winsock Kernel)
library, it uses a kernel mode driver, called Ancillary Function Driver (AFD) to implement certain functionality. Winsock Kernel (WSK) A kernel-mode API providing...
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2013-01-04. "Live patching the Linux kernel". Archived from the original on 2020-10-28. Retrieved 2020-10-25. "Linux Kernel Live Patching: What It is and Who...
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protocols, cable replacement protocols, telephony control protocols, and adopted protocols. Mandatory protocols for all Bluetooth stacks are LMP, L2CAP...
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Server" wizard that simplifies configuring a machine for specific roles, and improved performance. It is based on the Windows NT 5.2 kernel. A few services...
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front-ends, C++11 support, compiler optimization and diagnostics. Besides the kernel and related components, other components included and worth mentioning are...
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