authorized access

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Access to system components that (a) has been approved by a person designated to do so by management and (b) does not compromise segregation of duties, confidentiality commitments, or otherwise increase risk to the system beyond the levels approved by management (that is, access is appropriate).

MWENERC CIP-007-6 (System Security Management) v6

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 7 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Control85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: authorized accesses
possessive: authorized access's
pluralpossessive: authorized accesses'

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