1. A method, comprising: defining a micro-sequence based security policy; determining whether an instruction accesses a privileged resource, wherein a bit R15.P in a status register indicates that execution is occurring in privilege mode and a bit R15.U in a status register indicates that execution is occurring by way of a micro-sequence; and when a processor is not executing a micro-sequence and not already in privilege mode, applying the micro-sequenced based security policy to the instruction to control access to the privileged resource according to the security policy.