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privileged user

nounid 3676·updated May 9, 2026
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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 Systems6 citations · 6 defined by this document · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
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

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§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.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
A user that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
A user that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.
NIST SP 800-531 senseview framework →
§1
A user that is authorized (and, therefore, trusted) to perform security-relevant functions that ordinary users are not authorized to perform.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§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)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§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

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Incoming relationships

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