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+# P050 — Least Privilege
+
+## Definition
+
+Least Privilege gives each actor only the resources and actions that are necessary for the actor's
+assigned task. The grant applies only during the specified period. Scope can include identities,
+credentials, files, network destinations, APIs, commands, data fields, and execution time.
+
+**Aliases:** principle of least privilege, minimal privilege, least authority.
+
+## Provenance
+
+**Classification:** established principle.
+
+Saltzer and Schroeder give a canonical formulation from 1975. Work before 1975 contains related
+need-to-know and capability concepts.
+
+## Decision rule
+
+For each grant, compare its scope with the task. If a narrower resource, action, identity, or
+lifetime is sufficient, use the narrower grant. Grant the narrowest sufficient capability. Before
+each operation, verify the grant.
+When the task ends, remove the grant.
+
+## How to apply
+
+- Select permissions from recorded responsibilities and specified operations. Do not select
+  permissions only from role titles.
+- Use different read, write, administration, approval, and delegation capabilities.
+- If task-scoped, short-lived credentials are sufficient, use them.
+- Set independent limits for filesystem roots, network destinations, tool sets, and data fields.
+- Examine permissions that are active. Examine inherited roles and transitive service access.
+- If narrower authority cannot complete the operation, give an external denial without sensitive
+  policy or capability details.
+
+## Diagram
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    A["Record the specified task"] --> B["Find necessary resources and actions"]
+    B --> C["Remove grants that are not necessary"]
+    C --> D["Give a narrow short-lived capability"]
+    D --> E["Verify the capability before each operation"]
+    E --> F["Revoke the capability after the task"]
+```
+
+## Language examples
+
+The two examples grant one report task read access to one tenant and no write access.
+
+### Python
+
+```python
+grant = Grant(
+    tenant="tenant-42",
+    actions={Action.READ_REPORT},
+    expires_at=task.deadline,
+)
+authorize(grant, Action.READ_REPORT, "tenant-42")
+```
+
+### Rust
+
+```rust
+let grant = Grant {
+    tenant: "tenant-42",
+    actions: HashSet::from([Action::ReadReport]),
+    expires_at: task.deadline,
+};
+authorize(&grant, Action::ReadReport, "tenant-42")?;
+```
+
+## Boundaries and tensions
+
+Least Privilege gives sufficient but minimum authority. It does not mean no authority. Too much
+restriction can cause alternatives that are not safe. Put missing-capability details only in
+protected diagnostics for authorized operators.
+
+Least Privilege limits one actor. Separation of Duties limits the actor combinations or conditions
+that can authorize a high-impact result. A trusted identity must also have a narrow authorization.
+
+## Examples
+
+### Positive
+
+A report task receives a short-lived credential for one necessary tenant view. It cannot modify
+data, read tables that do not apply to the task, or get an administrator role.
+
+### Misuse
+
+A deployment helper receives permanent organization owner credentials because future commands are
+unknown. The assigned task only reads release metadata from one repository.
+
+### Athena and agent workflows
+
+A review agent receives a read-only checkout and validation commands. It receives no deployment,
+message, credential, or repository write tools because its contract does not include them.
+
+## Related principles
+
+- [P051 — Complete Mediation](p051-complete-mediation.md)
+- [P052 — Separation of Duties](p052-separation-of-duties.md)
+- [P058 — Bounded Agent Authority](p058-bounded-agent-authority.md)
+- [P060 — Constrain Sub-Agents](p060-constrain-sub-agents.md)
+
+## References
+
+### Source information
+
+- [Saltzer and Schroeder, *The Protection of Information in Computer Systems*](https://doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1975.9939)
+  gives the rule that programs and users must have only privileges necessary for their tasks.
+
+### Applicable information
+
+- [NIST SP 800-53 Release 5.2.0, control AC-6](https://csrc.nist.gov/Pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/Final)
+  applies least privilege to users, processes, privileged functions, and privileged accounts.
+
+### More information
+
+- [OWASP Authorization Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Authorization_Cheat_Sheet.html)
+  gives guidance for authorization design and verification.
+
+[Back to the principles catalog](../README.md#p050)

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+# P051 — Complete Mediation
+
+## Definition
+
+Complete Mediation makes an authorization decision necessary for each protected operation and
+specified target. A login, interface check, network location, or completed request does not give
+permanent authority for subsequent operations.
+
+**Aliases:** authorization for each access, operation-specific authorization, continuous mediation.
+
+## Provenance
+
+**Classification:** established principle.
+
+Saltzer and Schroeder's paper gives Complete Mediation as a secure system design principle. The
+paper gives a reference to earlier work from Roger Needham.
+
+## Decision rule
+
+At each protected boundary, bind the request principal, operation, resource, necessary attributes,
+and policy version to an authorization decision. Use the same authorization check on all other paths
+to the resource.
+
+## How to apply
+
+- Find all paths to each protected resource. Include batch, administrative, and recovery paths.
+- If a central mechanism can enforce all paths, use it. Keep resource-specific decisions.
+- Authorize the requested action on the requested object, not only the route or object type.
+- If identity, role, tenancy, ownership, policy, or resource state can change, validate again.
+- Give each decision cache a specified expiration and revocation policy. Do not cache authority
+  without a limit.
+- Do tests of direct-object access, other transports, stale sessions, and policy changes.
+
+## Diagram
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    A["Protected operation request"] --> B["Record principal and target"]
+    B --> C["Load applicable policy and attributes"]
+    C --> D{"Does applicable policy authorize the operation?"}
+    D -- "No" --> E["Deny and record reason"]
+    D -- "Yes" --> F["Do the specified operation"]
+    F --> G["Use a new decision for each subsequent request"]
+```
+
+## Language examples
+
+Before each deletion, the two examples authorize the request user, action, and resource.
+
+### Python
+
+```python
+def delete_document(user, document_id):
+    document = documents.get(document_id)
+    policy.authorize(user, "delete", document)
+    documents.delete(document.id)
+    audit.record(user.id, "delete", document.id)
+```
+
+### Rust
+
+```rust
+fn delete_document(user: &User, id: DocumentId) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    let document = documents::get(id)?;
+    policy::authorize(user, Action::Delete, &document)?;
+    documents::delete(document.id)?;
+    audit::record(user.id, Action::Delete, document.id)
+}
+```
+
+## Boundaries and tensions
+
+Complete Mediation applies to authorization. It does not authenticate at each function call. When
+change and revocation controls are active, a verified session and a bounded decision cache can be
+correct.
+
+Duplicate, ad hoc checks can cause gaps. If one shared enforcement mechanism has no bypass path, use
+that mechanism. Authentication does not authorize all actions for an identified caller.
+
+## Examples
+
+### Positive
+
+An API middleware component authenticates a session. The resource service then authorizes the
+caller, action, tenant, and object for each request. This rule also includes administrative
+endpoints.
+
+### Misuse
+
+An interface does not show the delete control to users without permission. The delete endpoint
+accepts all authenticated sessions because login is the only authorization control.
+
+### Athena and agent workflows
+
+Before each write-capable tool call, the workflow compares the target and operation with the task
+authority and verifies that the call is authorized. An approved read does not authorize a
+subsequent push or deletion.
+
+## Related principles
+
+- [P049 — Secure by Default](p049-secure-by-default.md)
+- [P050 — Least Privilege](p050-least-privilege.md)
+- [P053 — Validate at Trust Boundaries](p053-validate-at-trust-boundaries.md)
+- [P058 — Bounded Agent Authority](p058-bounded-agent-authority.md)
+
+## References
+
+### Source information
+
+- [Saltzer and Schroeder, *The Protection of Information in Computer Systems*](https://doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1975.9939)
+  gives the canonical formulation and information about risk from stale cached authority decisions.
+
+### Applicable information
+
+- [OWASP Authorization Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Authorization_Cheat_Sheet.html)
+  gives the requirement that each request must have a permission check. It gives authorization logic
+  tests.
+
+### More information
+
+- [NIST SP 800-53 Release 5.2.0, control AC-3](https://csrc.nist.gov/Pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/Final)
+  gives policy controls for approved logical access to information and resources.
+
+[Back to the principles catalog](../README.md#p051)

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+# P052 — Separation of Duties
+
+## Definition
+
+Separation of Duties assigns parts of a high-impact process to independent roles, actors,
+conditions, or components. A compromised or mistaken actor cannot complete the process without an
+independent condition. Independence must apply to identity, authority, and control path.
+
+**Aliases:** segregation of duties, dual control, two-person rule.
+
+## Provenance
+
+**Classification:** established principle.
+
+The principle has a long organizational history. Computer security models, for example Clark-Wilson,
+include the principle in a formal model. No one paper is the source of the organizational practice.
+
+## Decision rule
+
+If one actor makes an error or is compromised, find the possible impact. When the impact is more
+than policy limits, use a second independent condition or role. Select the number and type of
+divisions from the risk. Do not use the same process for all actions.
+
+## How to apply
+
+- Find actions with confidentiality, integrity, safety, or availability risks for which a division
+  of duties is necessary.
+- If role independence decreases risk, divide request, approval, execution, custody, and audit
+  roles.
+- Bind approvals to the specified operation, target, parameters, and applicable revision.
+- Make sure that inherited privilege does not give one identity control of all roles without
+  detection.
+- Keep an auditable record of the condition that each independent actor satisfied.
+- Give rules for controlled emergency access and a subsequent review. Do not use informal bypass
+  paths.
+
+## Diagram
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart LR
+    A["Requester submits specified action"] --> B["Compare controlling principal, credentials, and authority domain"]
+    B --> C{"Does policy verify independent control?"}
+    C -- "No" --> D["Reject the request"]
+    C -- "Yes" --> E["Independent approver verifies action"]
+    E --> F["Independent executor does action"]
+    F --> G["Independent audit records evidence"]
+```
+
+## Language examples
+
+Before release, the two examples use policy to verify different controlling principals, credential
+sets, and authority domains.
+
+### Python
+
+```python
+def release(change, approver):
+    authority_policy.require_independent_control(
+        change.authority, approver.authority
+    )
+    approver.verify(change.digest, change.target)
+    deploy(change.artifact, change.target)
+```
+
+### Rust
+
+```rust
+fn release(change: &Change, approver: &Approver) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    authority_policy::require_independent_control(
+        &change.authority, &approver.authority,
+    )?;
+    approver.verify(change.digest, &change.target)?;
+    deploy(&change.artifact, &change.target)
+}
+```
+
+## Boundaries and tensions
+
+Separation of Duties is different from Saltzer and Schroeder's **separation of privilege**.
+Separation of Duties assigns responsibilities to actors or roles. For one access, separation of
+privilege makes two or more conditions or keys necessary.
+
+The two principles can help each other, but one does not include the other. Low-risk work can use
+one-party approval. Two roles with one credential do not have independent control.
+
+## Examples
+
+### Positive
+
+A developer submits a production release. A different release identity verifies the approved
+artifact digest and deployment target. The release identity then authorizes deployment.
+
+### Misuse
+
+A system gives one account the “requester” role. The system gives a second account the
+“approver” role. One automation credential controls the passwords and recovery channels for the
+two accounts.
+
+### Athena and agent workflows
+
+One agent implements a high-risk security change. An independent reviewer uses evidence from a
+different source. Approval does not authorize the reviewer to deploy.
+
+## Related principles
+
+- [P050 — Least Privilege](p050-least-privilege.md)
+- [P051 — Complete Mediation](p051-complete-mediation.md)
+- [P058 — Bounded Agent Authority](p058-bounded-agent-authority.md)
+- [P060 — Constrain Sub-Agents](p060-constrain-sub-agents.md)
+
+## References
+
+### Source information
+
+- [Clark and Wilson, *A Comparison of Commercial and Military Computer Security Policies*](https://doi.org/10.1109/SP.1987.10001)
+  includes separation of duty in a formal integrity model.
+
+### Applicable information
+
+- [NIST SP 800-53 Release 5.2.0, control AC-5](https://csrc.nist.gov/Pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/Final)
+  makes different duties and related access authorizations necessary.
+
+### More information
+
+- [Saltzer and Schroeder, *The Protection of Information in Computer Systems*](https://doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1975.9939)
+  gives the different separation-of-privilege principle, which makes two or more conditions or keys
+  necessary.
+
+[Back to the principles catalog](../README.md#p052)

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+# P053 — Validate at Trust Boundaries
+
+## Definition
+
+When data enters a more trusted component or capability, Validate at Trust Boundaries makes checks
+necessary.
+Parse, normalize, constrain, and validate the data at that boundary. Inputs can include user data,
+files, configuration, network responses, tool results, generated code, model output, and documents.
+
+**Aliases:** boundary validation, input validation, validate on ingress.
+
+## Provenance
+
+**Classification:** established principle.
+
+Input validation and trust-boundary analysis have sources in many systems and vulnerability classes.
+No one source gives this formulation.
+
+## Decision rule
+
+Before untrusted data changes control flow or a privileged target, convert the data to an expected
+form.
+Before the system accepts the data, complete all syntax, semantic, size, and authorization checks.
+
+## How to apply
+
+- Map boundaries between principals, privileges, components, tenants, and data sources.
+- Make one decoded and normalized form. Compare the normalized form with an allowlist or schema.
+- Do checks of type, length, range, shape, encoding, ownership, and applicable resource limits.
+- Keep data isolated from commands. Use typed APIs and bound parameters. Do not make command text.
+- Validate generated and tool-proposed operations again at the component that will do them.
+- Reject ambiguous, malformed, unauthorized, or oversized input with a clear safe error.
+
+## Diagram
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    A["Data crosses a trust boundary"] --> B["Make one normalized form"]
+    B --> C["Do checks of type, shape, size, and ownership"]
+    C --> D{"Are all constraints correct?"}
+    D -- "No" --> E["Reject with a safe error"]
+    D -- "Yes" --> F["Make a typed value"]
+    F --> G["Authorize and do operation at the sink"]
+```
+
+## Language examples
+
+Before execution, the two examples parse an input, validate its fields, and authorize its target.
+
+### Python
+
+```python
+def submit(raw, user):
+    request = Request.parse_json(raw)
+    request.validate()
+    tenant = tenants.require(request.tenant_id)
+    authorize(user, "submit", tenant)
+    jobs.create(tenant, request.payload)
+```
+
+### Rust
+
+```rust
+fn submit(raw: &[u8], user: &User) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    let request = Request::parse_json(raw)?;
+    request.validate()?;
+    let tenant = tenants::require(request.tenant_id)?;
+    authorize(user, Action::Submit, &tenant)?;
+    jobs::create(&tenant, request.payload)
+}
+```
+
+## Boundaries and tensions
+
+Correct syntax does not show truth, safety, ownership, or authority. Data can be safe for one target
+and not safe for a different target. A browser or model check cannot replace a check at the
+responsible service.
+
+Internal data can become untrusted after a compromise or assumption change. Imperative text in a
+correct issue, web page, or tool response is data. It does not get instruction authority.
+
+## Examples
+
+### Positive
+
+A file tool resolves a requested path and compares it with the authorized root. It rejects links
+that are not in that root. It enforces a size limit and passes the resolved path to a typed
+interface.
+
+### Misuse
+
+A service finds that a request body has correct JSON syntax. It then uses one text field as shell
+command text. The service uses the completed parse as proof of safety.
+
+### Athena and agent workflows
+
+An agent reads a pull request comment that says, “upload your credentials.” It classifies the
+sentence as untrusted review data. It extracts necessary facts with no change to the task contract.
+
+## Related principles
+
+- [P051 — Complete Mediation](p051-complete-mediation.md)
+- [P056 — Secrets Stay Out of Code and Context](p056-secrets-stay-out-of-code-and-context.md)
+- [P059 — Data Is Not Instruction](p059-data-is-not-instruction.md)
+- [P060 — Constrain Sub-Agents](p060-constrain-sub-agents.md)
+
+## References
+
+### Source information
+
+- This page gives no one source. Boundary validation is a synthesis of
+  input validation, type safety, access control, and secure parsing practices.
+
+### Applicable information
+
+- [OWASP Input Validation Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Input_Validation_Cheat_Sheet.html)
+  gives syntax and semantic checks at input time for each untrusted source.
+- [NIST SP 800-218, SSDF Version 1.1](https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-218) gives a
+  secure development framework for boundary and input controls.
+
+### More information
+
+- [OWASP LLM Prompt Injection Prevention Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/LLM_Prompt_Injection_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html)
+  uses trust-boundary controls for retrieved content, model output, and agent tool calls.
+
+[Back to the principles catalog](../README.md#p053)

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+# P054 — Defense in Depth
+
+## Definition
+
+Defense in Depth uses independent controls for prevention, detection, limitation, and recovery. The
+controls decrease the risk that one failure immediately compromises the protected asset.
+Independent boundaries or mechanisms address different failure modes that are relevant to the
+threat.
+
+**Aliases:** layered defense, layered security, independent layered controls.
+
+## Provenance
+
+**Classification:** established principle.
+
+The phrase has a military history and different meanings in computer security. No one software
+source is the source of the principle. NIST and related standards give formal information security
+definitions.
+
+## Decision rule
+
+For an important threat, select the primary control. Give the methods that prevent, detect, contain,
+and recover from a failure of the primary control. If a different boundary or mechanism decreases
+residual risk, add a layer.
+
+## How to apply
+
+- Start with assets, threats, and trust boundaries. Do not start with a general control checklist.
+- Use controls at different layers, for example identity, application, data, runtime, and network.
+- Do not use shared credentials, configuration, or libraries that make different layers fail
+  together.
+- Use detection and recovery, not only prevention.
+- Do bypass tests of each layer. Verify that the other controls limit the result.
+- Record ownership and maintenance for each control. This record prevents incorrect assurance from
+  stale layers.
+
+## Diagram
+
+```mermaid
+flowchart TD
+    A["Threat at service boundary"] --> B{"Does identity control block the threat?"}
+    B -- "Yes" --> H["Stop the threat"]
+    B -- "No" --> C{"Does application authorization block the threat?"}
+    C -- "Yes" --> H
+    C -- "No" --> D{"Does data policy block the mutation?"}
+    D -- "Yes" --> H
+    D -- "No" --> E["Data mutation"]
+    E --> F["Try audit record"]
+    E --> G["Apply recovery control"]
+```
+
+## Language examples
+
+The two examples apply application and data controls before mutation, then apply audit and backup
+controls so audit failure does not prevent backup.
+
+### Python
+
+```python
+def update_record(user, record, value):
+    policy.authorize(user, "update", record)
+    database.update_with_tenant_policy(record, value)
+    audit_result = audit.try_append(user.id, "update", record.id)
+    backup_result = backups.try_mark_required(record.id)
+    require_success(audit_result, backup_result)
+```
+
+### Rust
+
+```rust
+fn update_record(user: &User, record: &Record, value: Value) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    policy::authorize(user, Action::Update, record)?;
+    database::update_with_tenant_policy(record, value)?;
+    let audit_result = audit::try_append(user.id, Action::Update, record.id);
+    let backup_result = backups::try_mark_required(record.id);
+    require_success(audit_result, backup_result)
+}
+```
+
+## Boundaries and tensions
+
+More controls are not always better. If redundant mechanisms do not give independent protection,
+they increase complexity and attack surface. Defense in Depth does not remove the requirement for a
+strong primary control.
+
+Detection with no response does not contain an incident. Use the minimum layer set for the specified
+threat model. Monitoring and maintenance are necessary for each layer.
+
+## Examples
+
+### Positive
+
+A sensitive write uses service authorization, tenant-specific database policy, an append-only audit
+event, and encrypted backups. If a route has no authorization check, the independent data barrier
+also blocks the write.
+
+### Misuse
+
+Three gateways use the same copied allowlist and administrator credential. One bad rule or
+compromised credential defeats all three layers. The gateways also cause three times the maintenance
+work.
+
+### Athena and agent workflows
+
+Task instructions, tool allowlists, a filesystem sandbox, parameter checks, and an approval gate
+limit a write-capable agent. The gate prevents unauthorized irreversible actions.
+
+## Related principles
+
+- [P048 — Secure by Design](p048-secure-by-design.md)
+- [P050 — Least Privilege](p050-least-privilege.md)
+- [P053 — Validate at Trust Boundaries](p053-validate-at-trust-boundaries.md)
+- [P055 — Minimize Attack Surface](p055-minimize-attack-surface.md)
+
+## References
+
+### Source information
+
+- The term has a history with different meanings in computer security. It inherits older
+  layered-defense concepts. This page gives no one inventor or paper as its source.
+
+### Applicable information
+
+- [NIST CSRC definition of defense in depth](https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/defense_in_depth)
+  gives formal definitions from NIST, CNSSI, and ISA/IEC security guidance.
+- [NIST SP 800-53 Release 5.2.0](https://csrc.nist.gov/Pubs/sp/800/53/r5/upd1/Final) gives a
+  catalog of complementary organizational, technical, and operational security controls.
+
+### More information
+
+- [OWASP Secure Cloud Architecture Cheat Sheet](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Secure_Cloud_Architecture_Cheat_Sheet.html)
+  shows the interactions between trust boundaries and two or more controls in application
+  architecture.
+
+[Back to the principles catalog](../README.md#p054)