Towards supporting users in assessing the risk in privilege elevation

To better protect users from security incidents, the principle of least privilege (PLP) requires that users and programs be granted the most restrictive set of privileges possible to perform the required tasks. The low-privileged user accounts (LUA) and privilege elevation prompts are two practical...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Motiee, Sara
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38313