Discuss Discretionary Access Control and Mandatory Access Control.

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Discretionary Access Control (DAC) – a means of restricting access to objects based on the
identity of subjects and/or groups to which they belong.
Mandatory Access Control (MAC) - based on system-wide policies that cannot be changed
by individual users. In this approach each database object is assigned a security class and each
user is assigned a clearance for a security class, and rules are imposed on reading and writing
of database objects by users. The DBMS determines whether a given user can read or write a
given object based on certain rules that involve the security level of the object and the
clearance of the user. These rules seek to ensure that sensitive data can never be passed on to
another user without the necessary clearance.

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