This essential resource for professionals and advanced students in security programming and system design introduces the foundations of programming systems security and the theory behind access control models, and addresses emerging access control mechanisms.

Access control is a method of allowing and disallowing certain operations on a computer or network system. This book details access control mechanisms that are emerging with the latest Internet programming technologies. It provides a thorough introduction to the foundations of programming systems security as well as the theory behind access control models. The author explores all models employed and describes how they work.