Least Privilege Design
Least Privilege Design is a security architecture principle that belongs to the class of access control strategies, distinguished by its requirement that users, programs, and system processes be granted the minimum levels of access—or privileges—necessary to perform their intended functions, thereby reducing the attack surface for exploits such as SQL injection.
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Permission evolution in the Android ecosystem
Xuetao Wei, Lorenzo Martínez Gómez, Iulian Neamtiu et al. · 2012 · 180 citations
Wedge: splitting applications into reduced-privilege compartments
Andrea Bittau, Petr Marchenko, Mark Handley et al. · 2008 · 148 citations
Protecting Browsers from Extension Vulnerabilities
Adam Barth, Adrienne Porter Felt, Prateek Saxena et al. · UC Berkeley · 2010 · 146 citations
Least privilege and more [computer security]
F.B. Schneider · IEEE Security & Privacy · 2003 · 98 citations
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University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
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University of South Carolina
Columbia, United States
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Temple University
Philadelphia, United States
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Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, United States
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lexington, United States
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, United States
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KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
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Old Dominion University
Norfolk, United States
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