Absolute path, 767

Absolute path name, 274

Abstraction, system design, 1042

Access control entry, 1021

Access control list, 621–625, 891

Access restriction, 685–689

Access system call, 667, 671, 792

Access to resources, 618–628

Access token, Windows security, 1020

Access violation, Windows, 964

Accountability, 609

ACEs (see Access Control Entries)

ACG (see Arbitrary Code Guard)

Acknowledged datagram service, 586

Acknowledgement, 146

Acknowledgement packet, 585

ACL (see Access Control List)

ACM Software System Award, 508

ACPI (see Advanced Configuration and Power Interface)

AcquireSRWLockShared Win32 call, 939

Active attack, 616

Active message, 568

Activity, Android, 821–825

Activity manager, Android, 820

Ada programming language, 7

Adapter, I/O, 338

AddAccessAllowedAce Win32 call, 1023

AddAccessDeniedAce Win32 call, 1023

Adding a level of indirection, 509

Adding code adds bugs, 1052

Address sanitizer, 1026

Address space, 39, 41–42, 183–192, 184

Address space layout randomization, 655–656

Address space layout randomization, Windows, 1028

Address sanitizer, 657

Adelson, Len, 634

Administrator, Windows, 41

Advanced configuration and power interface, 427, 898

Advanced LPC, 909

Adversary, 606, 614

Affinitized thread, Windows, 930

Affinity core, 563

Affinity scheduling, 552

Aging page replacement algorithm, 166, 213–214

AIDL (see Android Interface Definition Language)

Aiken, Howard, 8

Alarm signal, 41

Alarm system call, 729, 1077

Alder Lake architecture, 540

Alertable wait, 903

Algorithmic paradigm, 1049

Alias (symbolic link), 278

Allocating dedicated devices, 367–368

ALPC (see Advanced LPC)

Alternate data stream, NT file system, 994

Amazon AWS, 502

AMD EPYC Milan chip, 539

Amoeba operating system, 626–627

Analytical engine, 7

Andreesen, Marc, 78

Android, 1, 4, 15, 18, 19, 37, 793–863

Android 1.0, 796–797

Android 10, 799

Android 11, 799

Android 12, 799

Android 4.2, 798

Android 4.3, 798

Android 4.4, 798

Android 5.0, 798

Android 6.0, 799

Android 7.0, 799

Android 8, 799

Android 9, 799

Android activity, 821–825

Android activity manager, 820

Android and Google, 794

Android application, 818–830

Android architecture, 801–803

Android ART, 807–808

Android background execution, 856–861

Android binder API, 809, 814–815

Android binder kernel module, 809–814

Android content provider, 828–830

Android Dalvik, 796, 798, 802, 807, 809

Android defense in depth, 843–845

Android design goals, 800–801

Android Dream, 796

Android framework, 802

Android history, 794–799

Android IBinder, 814

Android IExample, 816

Android init, 801–802

Android intent, 830–831

Android interface definition language, 815

Android Linux extensions, 803–807

Android open source project, 794

Android out-of-memory killer, 806–807

Android package, 818

Android package manager, 803, 820

Android parcel, 814–815

Android permission, 839–843

Android privacy, 836–856

Android process dependency, 834–836

Android process lifecycle, 833–834

Android process model, 831–836

Android receiver, 827–828

Android remote procedure call, 810

Android resolver activity, 831

Android runtime, 807–808

Android sandbox, 837–838

Android security, 836–856

Android service, 825–827

Android Sooner, 795–796

Android suspend blocker, 804

Android system server, 807

Android transaction, 810

Android wake lock, 804–805

Android zygote, 801–802, 808–809, 832–833

Antimalware, Windows, 1034–1045

Antimalware program, 690

AOSP (see Android Open Source Project)

APC (see Asynchronous Procedure Call)

Aperiodic scheduling, 168

API (see Application Programming Interface)

App, 37

Appcontainer, 882

Append system call, 269

Apple, 17

Application, Android, 818–830

Application programming interface, 61, 490

• Windows, 60–63

Application sandbox

• Android, 837–848

• Windows, 1016

Application silo, Windows, 1012

Application verifier, 919

Application-launch prefetching, Windows, 965

Arbitrary code guard, Windows, 1030

Architectural coherence, 1048

Architecture, computer, 4, 7, 11, 22

Archive, UNIX, 265

ARM64EC, (see ARM 64 Emulation Compatible)

ARM 64 Emulation Compatible, 953

ART (see Android RunTime)

AS/400, 625

ASCII, 1059–1060

ASCII file, 265

ASLR (see Address Space Layout Randomization)

Associative memory, 201

Asynchronous call, 566

Asynchronous input/output, 353

Asynchronous procedure call, Windows, 903–904

Asynchronous system call, 116

Asychronous vs. synchronous communication, 1064–1065

AT attachment, 30

Atanasoff, John, 8

Atomic action, 130

Atomic transaction, 293

Atomic read system call, 740

Atomic set system call, 740

Attack, active, 616

Attack (see Security attack)

Attack surface, 610

Attacker, 614, 614–617

Attestation, remote, 913

Attribute, file, 267–268

Audio visual disk, 381

Authentication, 146, 637–647

• challenge-response, 643–644

• multifactor, 897

Authentication using a physical object, 644–645

Authentication using biometrics, 645–647

Authenticity, 609

Autoboost, Windows, 949

Auto-expand PushLock, Windows, 940

Automounting, 785

AV disk (see Audio Visual disk)

Availability, 608

Available resource vector, 452

Avoiding deadlock, 455–461

Azure, Microsoft, 506