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  2. Principle of least privilege - Wikipedia

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    In information security, computer science, and other fields, the principle of least privilege (PoLP), also known as the principle of minimal privilege (PoMP) or the principle of least authority (PoLA), requires that in a particular abstraction layer of a computing environment, every module (such as a process, a user, or a program, depending on the subject) must be able to access only the ...

  3. Blacklist (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Screenshot of a website blocking the creation of content which matches a regular expression term on its blacklist. In computing, a blacklist, disallowlist, blocklist, or denylist is a basic access control mechanism that allows through all elements (email addresses, users, passwords, URLs, IP addresses, domain names, file hashes, etc.), except those explicitly mentioned.

  4. Mandatory access control - Wikipedia

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    Historically, MAC was strongly associated with multilevel security (MLS) as a means of protecting classified information of the United States.The Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the seminal work on the subject and often known as the Orange Book, provided the original definition of MAC as "a means of restricting access to objects based on the sensitivity (as represented by ...

  5. Bogon filtering - Wikipedia

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    Announcements of new assignments are often published on network operators' mailing lists (such as NANOG) to ensure that bogon filtering can be removed for addresses that have become legitimate. For example, addresses in 49.0.0.0 / 8 were not allocated prior to August 2010, but are now used by APNIC .

  6. File-system permissions - Wikipedia

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    The following are some examples of symbolic notation: -rwxr-xr-x : a regular file whose user class has full permissions and whose group and others classes have only the read and execute permissions. crw-rw-r-- : a character special file whose user and group classes have the read and write permissions and whose others class has only the read ...

  7. Plausible deniability - Wikipedia

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    These so-called "little green men" have been given as an example of plausible deniability. Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command , to deny knowledge and/or responsibility for actions committed by or on behalf of members of their organizational hierarchy.

  8. Deniable encryption - Wikipedia

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    One example of deniable encryption is a cryptographic filesystem that employs a concept of abstract "layers", where each layer can be decrypted with a different encryption key. [ citation needed ] Additionally, special " chaff layers" are filled with random data in order to have plausible deniability of the existence of real layers and their ...

  9. Security Identifier - Wikipedia

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    Security Identifier (SID) is a unique, immutable identifier of a user account, user group, or other security principal in the Windows NT family of operating systems. A security principal has a single SID for life (in a given Windows domain), and all properties of the principal, including its name, are associated with the SID.