Computer security policy A computer security policy defines the goals and elements of an organization's computer systems. The definition can be highly formal or informal. Security policies are enforced by organizational policies or security mechanisms. A technical implementation defines whether a computer system is secure or insecure. These formal policy models can be categorized into the core security principles of: Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. For example, the BellLa Padula model is a confidentiality policy model, whereas Biba model is an integrity policy model.
Contents Formal description Formal policy models Confidentiality policy model Integrity policies model Hybrid policy model Policy languages See also References
Formal description If a system is regarded as a finite-state automaton with a set of transitions (operations) that change the system's state, then a security policy can be seen as a statement that partitions these states into authorized and unauthorized ones. Given this simple definition one can define a secure system as one that starts in an authorized state and will never enter an unauthorized state.
Formal policy models Confidentiality policy model Bell-La Padula model
Integrity policies model Biba model Clark-Wilson model
Hybrid policy model Chinese Wall (Also known as Brewer and Nash model)
Policy languages To represent a concrete policy especially for automated enforcement of it, a language representation is needed. There exist a lot of application specific languages that are closely coupled with the security mechanisms that enforce the policy in that application. Compared with this abstract policy languages, e.g. the Domain Type Enforcement-Language, are independent of the concrete mechanism.
See also Anti-virus Information Assurance - CIA Triad Firewall (computing) Protection mechanisms separation of protection and security ITU Global Cybersecurity Agenda
References Bishop, Matt (2004). Computer security: art and science. Addison-Wesley. Feltus, Christophe (2008). "Preliminary Literature Review of Policy Engineering Methods - Toward Responsibility Concept". Proceeding of 3rd international conference on information and communication technologies : from theory to applications (ICTTA 08), Damascus, Syria; Preliminary Literature Review of Policy Engineering Methods - Toward Responsibility Concept (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp ?arnumber=4529912&language=fr). External link in |publisher= (help) McLean, John (1994). "Security Models". Encyclopedia of Software Engineering. 2. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 1136–1145. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computer_security_policy&oldid=696427445"
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