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Security
The security engineering term for IT functionality that
- 1) controls all access,
- 2) cannot be by-passed,
- 3) is tamper-resistant, and
- 4) provides confidence that the other three items are true.
Telecommunications
A video display that is used to view a video signal to determine its image quality. 2. [An] Access control concept referring to an abstract machine that mediates all accesses to objects by subjects. [INFOSEC-99] 3. In security, the concept of an abstract machine that enforces target-of-evaluation (TOE) access control policies and security processes. [After CC-99]