privileged user
nounid
3676·updated May 9, 2026verified
A user who is authorized (and therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.
MWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.01.07.a03.01.07.b ¶ 103.03.08.b03.15.03.d ¶ 13.2.2 ¶ 1283.2.2 ¶ 129
Classifications
Entity Type
Group100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- privileged role
- plural
- privileged users
- possessive
- privileged user's
- pluralpossessive
- privileged users'
Framework definitions
- §1
- Any user account with greater than basic access privileges. Typically, these accounts have elevated or increased privileges with more rights than a standard user account. However, the extent of privileges across different privileged accounts can vary greatly depending on the organization, job function or role, and the technology in use.
- §1
- A user that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.
- §1
- A user that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.
- §1
- A user that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.
- §1 · glossary
- A user who is authorized (and therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
- §1 · legacy_primary
- A user that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
Outgoing relationships
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Incoming relationships
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