Permission (Dictionary Entry)

Term

Permission

Alternative Wordings

  • Privilege

Context

IAM

Definitions

Permission (privilege): An authorization to perform some action on the system. In most computer security literature, the term permission refers to some combination of object and operation. A particular operation used on two different objects represents two distinct permissions, and similarly, two different operations applied to a single object represent two distinct permissions. For example, a bank teller may have permissions to execute debit and credit operations on customer records through transactions, while an accountant may execute debit and credit operations on the general ledger, which consolidates the bank’s accounting data [FKC03].

(NIST IR 7316, 2006, p. 3-4)

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