{"title":"Has Access Control Become the Weak Link?","authors":"Trent Jaeger","doi":"10.1109/msec.2024.3427588","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In the early 2000s, computer systems were under threat from a variety of Internet worms. This malware attacked network-facing programs by exploiting their memory errors, hijacking their execution to perform malicious operations and propagate the malware to other systems. One key change that commercial systems adopted to prevent such attacks was in access control enforcement. With the enhanced access control (and other defenses), defenders were able to prevent Internet worm attacks, but a variety of other significant and catastrophic attacks (e.g., ransomware) have emerged since that time. But our access control infrastructure is essentially the same as that used to combat Internet worms. In this column, I want to look more closely at the current state of access control enforcement and where we might go from here.","PeriodicalId":13152,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Security & Privacy","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Security & Privacy","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/msec.2024.3427588","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In the early 2000s, computer systems were under threat from a variety of Internet worms. This malware attacked network-facing programs by exploiting their memory errors, hijacking their execution to perform malicious operations and propagate the malware to other systems. One key change that commercial systems adopted to prevent such attacks was in access control enforcement. With the enhanced access control (and other defenses), defenders were able to prevent Internet worm attacks, but a variety of other significant and catastrophic attacks (e.g., ransomware) have emerged since that time. But our access control infrastructure is essentially the same as that used to combat Internet worms. In this column, I want to look more closely at the current state of access control enforcement and where we might go from here.
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