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The security engineering term for IT functionality that—
1) controls all access,
2) cannot be bypassed,
3) is tamper-resistant, and
4) provides confidence that the other three items are true.
SOURCE: SP 800-33

Concept of an abstract machine that enforces Target of Evaluation (TOE) access control policies.
SOURCE: CNSSI-4009