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security policy

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A set of rules and practices that specify or regulate how a system or organization provides security services to protect resources. Security policies are components of security architectures. Significant portions of security policies are implemented via security services, using security policy expressions. [RFC 2828]

security policy expression

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

A mapping of principal identities and/or attributes thereof with allowable actions. Security policy expressions are often essentially access control lists. [STG]

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