audit-related privilege

This phrase is **compositional**, not a term of art. It combines two ordinary access-control concepts — "privilege" (an elevated permission or right granted to a user or role) and "audit-related" (pertaining to the logging, monitoring, and review functions of a system) — to describe the subset of elevated permissions whose scope is limited to audit activities such as reading logs, generating audit reports, or reviewing security events, as opposed to administrative or operational privileges that modify system state. Authority documents such as NIST SP 800-53 (AC-6, AU family) treat these concepts separately rather than coining a compound term; when writers need to distinguish audit-function access from other privileged access, they assemble the phrase on the fly using those established concepts.