Security policy

A security policy is a statement that partitions the states of a system into a set of authorized and a set of unauthorized states, that is, the state of secure states or non-secure states.

Let us take an example of three states during the permission granting process for posting a document inside the Microsoft Dynamics NAV system, where state 1 (S1) and state 2 (S2) are secure states, whereas state 3 (S3) is an unsecure state. This is depicted in the following diagram:

Secure and non-secure state example in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

In Microsoft Dynamics NAV, let us assume a condition where, for a posting process, a process requires permission to write data to a particular table. In this particular instance, NAV uses the setup table design pattern, where it first reads the data field in the permission table, which is based on the security policy. From the permission table, the system grants permission, and then the process completes the posting process. So here, the system refers...