Your Computer's Security
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Why Protect your Computer? |
The How To:
Computer security is a logic-based technology. There is no universal standard notion of what secure behavior is. “Security” is a property that is unique to each situation and so must be overtly defined by a Security Policy, if it is to be seriously enforced. Security is not an ancillary function of a computer application, but often what the application doesn’t do. Unless the application is just trusted to ‘be secure,’ security can only be imposed as a constraint on the application’s behavior from outside of the application.
Computer security is a logic-based technology. There is no universal standard notion of what secure behavior is. “Security” is a property that is unique to each situation and so must be overtly defined by a Security Policy, if it is to be seriously enforced. Security is not an ancillary function of a computer application, but often what the application doesn’t do. Unless the application is just trusted to ‘be secure,’ security can only be imposed as a constraint on the application’s behavior from outside of the application.