Formal Description
If a system is regarded as a finite-state automaton with a set of transitions (operations) that change the system's state, then a security policy can be seen as a statement that partitions these states into authorized and unauthorized ones.
Given this simple definition one can define a secure system as one that starts in an authorized state and will never enter an unauthorized state.
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