A Computer Security course: Centralized Operating Systems

Copyright © 2000 Giovanni Chiola.

This file was last updated on Oct. 15th, 2000.

Centralized Operating Systems

• Table of Content
• Basic Principles
  • Users, Resources, and Security Kernel
  • Least Privilege and Domain Switching
  • Identification and Access Control Mechanisms
  • Redundancy and Economy of Control
  • Virtual Machines and Weakest Point of Attack
• Unix/Linux Achilles Heel
  • Root Account and SETUID Processes
  • File System Configuration
  • Shell and Environment Variables
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Remote Services and Mount
  • Buffer Overflows

Basic Principles

Users, Resources, and Security Kernel

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Least Privilege and Domain Switching

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Identification and Access Control Mechanisms

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Redundancy and Economy of Control

To be written ...

Virtual Machines and Weakest Point of Attack

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Unix/Linux Achilles Heel

Root Account and SETUID Processes

To be written ...

File System Configuration

To be written ...

Shell and Environment Variables

To be written ...

Monitoring Tools

To be written ...

Remote Services and Mount

To be written ...

Buffer Overflows

To be written ...