====== Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) ======
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**Policy Enforcement Point (PEP)** is a mechanism (e.g., access control mechanism of a file system or Web server) that actually protects (in terms of controlling access to) the resources exposed by Web services.

Source: [[https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/policy_enforcement_point ]]


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