Principle of least privilege
nounid
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The security objective of granting users only the access needed to perform official duties.
MWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.01.05.d ¶ 1
Classifications
Entity Type
Requirement0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- plural
- Principle of least privileges
- possessive
- Principle of least privilege's
- pluralpossessive
- Principle of least privileges'
Framework definitions
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
- §1
- The security objective of granting users only the access needed to perform official duties.
- §1 · attested_usage_pack_match
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- The security objective of granting users only the access needed to perform official duties.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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