Access Control, Security, and Trust: A Logical Approach

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CRC Press, Jul 26, 2010 - Computers - 352 pages
Developed from the authors' courses at Syracuse University and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Access Control, Security, and Trust: A Logical Approach equips readers with an access control logic they can use to specify and verify their security designs. Throughout the text, the authors use a single access control logic based on a simple pro
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Access Control Security Trust and Logic
1
Preliminaries
9
Chapter 2 A Language for Access Control
11
Chapter 3 Reasoning about Access Control
39
Chapter 4 Basic Concepts
57
Chapter 5 Security Policies
77
Distributed Access Control
107
Chapter 6 Digital Authentication
109
Chapter 10 Virtual Machines and Memory Protection
197
Chapter 11 Access Control Using Descriptors and Capabilities
227
Chapter 12 Access Control Using Lists and Rings
245
Access Policies
261
Chapter 13 Confidentiality and Integrity Policies
263
Chapter 14 RoleBased Access Control
289
Appendix A Summary of the AccessControl Logic
313
Bibliography
321

Chapter 7 Delegation
133
Case Studies
149
Isolation and Sharing
175
Chapter 9 A Primer on Computer Hardware
177
Notation Index
324
Back cover
325
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Shiu-Kai Chin is a Meredith Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He is also director of the Center for Information and Systems Assurance and Trust. While at Syracuse, Dr. Chin has received the Outstanding Teacher Award, the Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contributions to the University's Academic Programs, and the Crouse Hinds Award for Excellence in Education.

Susan Older is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. She is also the program director for the Certificate of Advanced Study in Systems Assurance. Dr. Older's research interests include programming-language semantics, logics of programs, formal methods, and information-assurance and computer science education.

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