audit-related privilege
163624·updated Oct 3, 2026This 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.
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Individuals or roles with privileged access to a system and who are also the subject of an audit by that system may affect the reliability of the audit information by inhibiting audit activities or modifying audit records. Requiring privileged access to be further defined between audit-related privileges and other privileges limits the number of users or roles with audit-related privileges.the sentence this term was read in
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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.
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- §1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
- 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 NIST SP 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
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- 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.Drafted by the propose-term web lookup (PD-018); a curator confirms or replaces it.