Make least privilege a right (not a privilege)

  • Authors:
  • Maxwell Krohn;Petros Efstathopoulos;Cliff Frey;Frans Kaashoek;Eddie Kohler;David Mazières;Robert Morris;Michelle Osborne;Steve VanDeBogart;David Ziegler

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT;UCLA;MIT;MIT;UCLA;NYU;MIT;NYU;UCLA;MIT

  • Venue:
  • HOTOS'05 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 10
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Though system security would benefit if programmers routinely followed the principle of least privilege [24], the interfaces exposed by operating systems often stand in the way. We investigate why modern OSes thwart secure programming practices and propose solutions.