Security Basics: Re: Help needed with Mandatory Access Control Security Labels

[<sculark-tx () tx rr com>]

That is correct.  The rights are not inherited in that fashion.  You must also have a need to know.  Just because you 
have a secret in one place does not allow you to have that same secret clearance ported to another area .  So hopefully 
you as the secrtiy manager will grant the rigths as needed.
--
Lawrence Sculark

---- Kelly Robinson <caliana1989 () gmail com> wrote: 
> Hi, I am studying for my CISSP at the moment and I have a question
> regarding Mandatory Access Controls and security labels.
>
> I understand the whole security labels thingy ie Top Secret > Secret >
> Classified > Unclassified and I understand some of the different
> models and their write-up, read-up, write-down etc rules.
>
> I just dont get the {Resource} part.
>
> Say I have the following (SECRET;{TECHNOLOGY}) and I want read access
> to an UNCLASSIFIED document in the SCIENCE resource I am assuming that
> since I dont have (SECRET;(TECHNOLOGY;SCIENCE}) that I would NOT have
> read access? Is that right?
>
> Thanks
>
> K.