authorization
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
Access privileges granted to a user, program, or process or the act of granting those privileges.
Framework senses
- §1
- Authorization is the approval, permission, or empowerment for someone or something to do something.
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1 · extended_definition_available
- A process of determining, by evaluating applicable access control information, whether a subject is allowed to have the specified types of access to a particular resource.
- §1
- Official permission or approval.
- §1
- Access privileges granted to a user, program, or process or the act of granting those privileges.
- §1
- Access privileges granted to a user, program, or process or the act of granting those privileges.
- §1
- the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant
- §2
- official permission or approval
- §3
- the power or right to give orders or make decisions
- §4
- a document giving an official instruction or command