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Partitioning Communication System is a computer and communications security architecture based on an information flow separation policy. The PCS extends the four foundational security policies of a MILS (
Multiple Independent Levels of Security Multiple Independent Levels of Security/Safety (MILS) is a high-assurance security architecture based on the concepts of separation and controlled information flow. It is implemented by separation mechanisms that support both untrusted and trustwor ...
) software architecture to the network: * End-to-end Information Flow * End-to-end Data Isolation * End-to-end Periods Processing * End-to-end Damage Limitation The PCS leverages software separation to enable application layer entities to enforce, manage, and control application layer security policies in such a manner that the application layer security policies are: * Non-bypassable * Evaluatable * Always-invoked * Tamper-proof The result is a communications architecture that allows a software separation kernel and the PCS to share responsibility of security with the application. The PCS was invented by OIS. OIS collaborated extensively on the requirements for the PCS with: *
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Presentation at OMG Software Based Communications Workshop
* {{cite web , last = Beckwith , first = R. William , title = MILS Partitioning Communication System , publisher = Objective Interface Systems, Inc. , url = http://www.ois.com/pcs/ , url-status = dead , archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928154531/http://www.ois.com/pcs/ , archivedate = 2007-09-28 Operating system security