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Mandatory access controls

Mandatory access controls

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Mandatory access controls

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- [Instructor] Mandatory Access Control systems are the most stringent type of access control. In mandatory access control, or MAC systems, the operating system itself restricts the permissions that may be granted to users and processes on system resources. Users themselves cannot modify those permissions. For this reason, MAC is rarely fully implemented on production systems outside of highly secure environments. MAC is normally implemented as a rule-based access control system where users and resources have labels and the operating system makes access control decisions by comparing those labels. Now one important note on terminology before we move on to an example. MAC in this context refers to mandatory access control an access control model. We're not talking here about the Macintosh operating system. The Macintosh operating system actually does not support mandatory access control. So let's talk about how this works…

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