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Host and Application Security

Host and Application Security. Lesson 6: Object Protection (intro). OS: More Detail. Let’s look at the security-relevant parts of the OS… which are…?. NO direct access. One of the first things an operating system does is prevent much hardware direct access without the concept of a privilege

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Host and Application Security

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  1. Host and Application Security Lesson 6: Object Protection (intro)

  2. OS: More Detail • Let’s look at the security-relevant parts of the OS… which are…?

  3. NO direct access • One of the first things an operating system does is prevent much hardware direct access without the concept of a privilege • However, it’s more complicated than that, if we think about the impact of a binary containing the HLT instruction

  4. Separation • Need to think about three different levels • Physical • Temporal • Logical • Cryptographic

  5. Memory and Address • A fence – hard limit between OS and program • A fence register provides support for a movable fence • More sophisticated: base/bounds registers • Tagged architecture – every word of memory has extra bits to signify access rights

  6. Memory Segmentation • Break program into segments • OS translates address references to actual memory • Each address is checked for protection • Highly granular • Two or more processes can share a segment

  7. Paging • Alternative to segmentation • Each page can be individually protected • Page translation table xlates logical to physical addresses

  8. Toward General Objects • Memory is an example of an object – same ideas apply to general objects • Goals of control: • Check every access • Enforce least privilege • Verify acceptable usage

  9. Controlling Access: ACLs • Imagine each object has flags associated with it • What flags would make sense? • Unix typically thinks of user, group, world • Of course, the permission space can be much broader…

  10. Windows

  11. Things to Do… • Find and read Ch4 of the book “Security in Computing” • Find and read “So long and thanks for the externalities” by Cormac Herley • Compare and contrast the difference access control models in Windows and Linux. Give some command & code examples of how they work. Due: 1 week.

  12. Questions?

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