40 likes | 246 Views
OS Integrity. Definition. System integrity is the ability of an operating system to prevent the circumvention or bypassing of its security, auditing, or accounting controls by any program, or person not authorized to do so.
E N D
Definition • System integrity is the ability of an operating system to prevent the circumvention or bypassing of its security, auditing, or accounting controls by any program, or person not authorized to do so. • Therein lies the issue, allowing authorized persons and programs to bypass these controls while simultaneously restricting that ability to those unauthorized. • An operating system has system integrity when: • it is designed, implemented and maintained to ensure that unauthorized users and unauthorized programs cannot bypass the functions that protect other users or programs, • applications cannot obtain control in an authorized execution state, and cannot bypass the system-level security functions.