authorization
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
The process of granting access privileges to a user, program, or process by a person that has the authority to grant such access.
polysemousTSP Section 100
Senses
SANS Glossary of Security Terms
Authorization is the approval, permission, or empowerment for someone or something to do something.
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexiconextended 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.
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012
Official permission or approval.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Access privileges granted to a user, program, or process or the act of granting those privileges.
Wordset Dictionary
the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant
Wordset Dictionary
official permission or approval
Wordset Dictionary
the power or right to give orders or make decisions
Wordset Dictionary
a document giving an official instruction or command
Classifications
Entity Type
Process100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1
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Sensitivity
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- authorisationauthoritydominanceempowermentmandatepotencysanctionsay-so
- alternatephrasing
- Authorization
- plural
- authorizations
- possessive
- authorization's
- pluralpossessive
- authorizations'