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Re: Help needed with Mandatory Access Control Security Labels


From: <sculark-tx () tx rr com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:43:39 -0600

That is correct.  The rights are not inherited in that fashion.  You must also have a need to know.  Just because you 
have a secret in one place does not allow you to have that same secret clearance ported to another area .  So hopefully 
you as the secrtiy manager will grant the rigths as needed.
--
Lawrence Sculark

---- Kelly Robinson <caliana1989 () gmail com> wrote: 
Hi, I am studying for my CISSP at the moment and I have a question
regarding Mandatory Access Controls and security labels.

I understand the whole security labels thingy ie Top Secret > Secret >
Classified > Unclassified and I understand some of the different
models and their write-up, read-up, write-down etc rules.

I just dont get the {Resource} part.

Say I have the following (SECRET;{TECHNOLOGY}) and I want read access
to an UNCLASSIFIED document in the SCIENCE resource I am assuming that
since I dont have (SECRET;(TECHNOLOGY;SCIENCE}) that I would NOT have
read access? Is that right?

Thanks

K.


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