Managing Protected Resources with Access Control Addresses the privacy, integrity, and availability of information on your system. Identification and Authentication Determines how users are identified and how their identities are authenticated. Enforces the information security policies of the system. Auditing Records and analyzes events that take place on the system. The primary goal of security is the detection and prevention of security violations on a system.
Computer security includes the following fundamental aspects.
User Administration User administration consists of creating users and groups and defining their attributes. A major attribute of users is how they are authenticated. Users are the primary agents on the system. Groups are collections of users who can share access permissions for protected resources. A group has an ID and is composed of members and administrators.