Outline for September 27, 2024

Reading: text, §14, 4.1–4.2
Due: Homework 1, due October 9; Project selection, due Oct 9


  1. Principles of secure design
    1. Bases: simplicity, restrictiveness
    2. Principle of least privilege
      1. Principle of least authority
    3. Principle of fail-safe defaults
    4. Principle of economy of mechanism
    5. Principle of complete mediation
    6. Principle of open design
    7. Principle of separation of privilege
    8. Principle of least common mechanism
    9. Principle of least astonishment
      1. Principle of psychological acceptability

  2. Policy
    1. Sets of authorized, unauthorized states
    2. Secure systems in terms of states
    3. Defining confidentiality, integrity, availability
    4. Policy models and mechanisms

  3. Reference monitor
    1. Entities, subjects, and objects
    2. What a reference monitor, reference validation mechanism are
    3. Relationship to policy

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ECS 235A, Computer and Information Security
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