Information Security - Access Control

Overview Access Control Matrix model Discretionary Access Control (DAC) Mandatory Access Control (MAC) and an example model Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Access Control in Unix Sep 2009 Information Security by Van K Nguyen Hanoi University of Technology 2 .What is AC Quote from Ross Anderson (text “Security Engineering”) Its function is to control which principals (persons, processes, machines, …) have access to which resources in the system -- which files they can read, which programs they can execute, and how they share data with other principals, and so on....