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Principle of least privilege

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The security objective of granting users only the access needed to perform official duties.

MWE

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'