Synonyms
Authentication; Data confidentiality; Data integrity services
Definition
Given a set of local or distributed resources to be protected, a security service is a task (or set of tasks) that coherently performs processing or communication on behalf of the underlying system infrastructure, in order to support and employ several security requirements of both the system and the data sources. Such requirements involve authentication, PKI accessing, etc. over the underlying resources. Security services typically implement portions of security policies and are implemented via particular processes which are called security mechanisms.
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Security services are well documented and described in X.800 documentation [1] for almost all the layers from the physical up to the application layer, whereas focus on security services applied on the Web is given in [2]. Physical and data layer security services focus on support confidentiality at various levels, namely, at the connection and...
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Vakali, A. (2018). Security Services. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1481
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