AUTHORIZATION

Authorization

Authorization is the function of specifying access rights to resources, which is related to information security and computer security in general and to access control in particular. More formally, "to authorize" is to define access policy. For example, human resources staff are normally authorized to access employee records, and this policy is usually formalized as access control rules in a computer system. During operation, the system uses the access control rules to decide whether access requests from consumers shall be approved or disapproved . Resources include individual files' or items' data, computer programs, computer devices and functionality ...

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authorization

Noun

  1. Permission.
    I've got authorization. Call the office and you'll see.
  2. An act of authorizing.
  3. (A document giving) formal sanction, permission or warrant.
    Can I see your authorization?
  4. Permission, possibly limited, to spend funds for a specific budgetary purpose.
    We've had the authorization for years, but we've never gotten an appropriation.


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