Security Kernel

Security Kernel definition - hacker
The part of a computer that realizes the fundamental security procedures for controlling access to system resources. In the formal conceptual framework of a Trusted Computing Base, the security kernel implements the reference monitor.

See Also: Access Control; Operating System.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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