Operating Systems Security - A Review
Ipsita Vashista, Harsha Suri, Disha Papneja · 2014
Operating System is the core piece of software which runs on all information systems, such as network devices (routers, firewalls, etc.), Web servers, customer desktops, PDAs, and so on. And the security of operating systems is one of the fundamental concerns in the security of cyberspace and e-commerce. Issues of operating system security occupy a central role in applied computer science; yet there has been no satisfactory complete solution to the problem of computer security. Many known vulnerabilities discovered so far are rooted from the bugs or deficiency in operating systems. This paper is a review on the security and lack of it in the most commercial operating systems like UNIX and Microsoft Windows, and its effect to the overall security of Web based applications and services.