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Protection of Operating Systems

Analysis of security measures for protecting operating systems.

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Protection of Operating SystemsWrite a paper discussing the relative advantages and disadvantages of at least three different measuresused to protect operating systems. The ease of implementation and the associated security managementissuesshould also be addressed. Finally, the paper should include a ranking of the measures from bestto worst with supporting rationale.Protection of Operating SystemsIntroductionThe use of computer operating systems has increased significantly across arange of applications and utilizations within the last few years. These range fromtheir utilization in all forms of business operation, but also in terms of systemsecurity, and all software applications. User have come to rely on the operatingsystems being used as a primary means of accessing both command line interfaces(CLI) and graphical user interfaces (GUI) which will serve as the way in whichapplications and data are accessed as well as providing all of the necessaryinformation required for ongoing requirements (UMUC, 2011).Businesses themselves will count on operating systems as a primary meansof addressing and providing the fundamental security elements of:Confidentiality;Integrity;Availability;Authenticity.While many operating systems have incorporated a wide range of controls bywhich it would be possible to mitigate and address these types of security concerns,

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