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What Is Critical Software? NIST Defines It

SecureWorld News

The question was this: how do you define critical software, and what kinds of operations does critical software power and control? NIST definition: what is defined as critical software? First of all, NIST says it went into this process of defining critical software with two specific goals in mind: 1.

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What Is Critical Software? NIST Defines It

SecureWorld News

The question was this: how do you define critical software, and what kinds of operations does critical software power and control? NIST definition: what is defined as critical software? First of all, NIST says it went into this process of defining critical software with two specific goals in mind: 1.

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When least privilege is the most important thing

CIO Business Intelligence

So, in a nutshell, least privilege says that every object in a system – whether a user, a process, or an application – must be able to access only the information and resources that it needs, and no more. The result was that it was straightforward, at times elementary, for malicious software to own the entire system.

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