Principle of least privilege
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The security objective of granting users only the access needed to perform official duties.
MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary
Senses
NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Classifications
Entity Type
Requirement0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Principle of least privileges
- possessive
- Principle of least privilege's
- pluralpossessive
- Principle of least privileges'