Privileged Process

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A computer process that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary processes are not authorized to perform.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Privileged Processes
possessive: Privileged Process's
pluralpossessive: Privileged Processes'

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