Sandboxing
Running an untrusted application inside a tightly controlled environment where its permissions are cut back to an essential set — typically no access to the file system or the network beyond what has been granted.
Official source: sandbox — Glossary, NIST Computer Security Resource Center →
The constraint is enforced by the surrounding system rather than promised by the application, which is the whole point when the application's behaviour is what is in question.
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