The ________ protects critical data used by the operating system from user applications, separating processing tasks by disallowing access to each other’s data, disabling access to memory regions, allowing memory regions to be defined as read-only, and detecting unexpected memory accesses that could potentially break the system.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


memory protection unit

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