Concept

Protection mechanism

Summary
In computer science, protection mechanisms are built into a computer architecture to support the enforcement of security policies. A simple definition of a security policy is "to set who may use what information in a computer system". The access matrix model, first introduced in 1971, is a generalized description of operating system protection mechanisms. The separation of protection and security is a special case of the separation of mechanism and policy.
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