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A glossary of storage networking, data, and information management terminology. To learn more about the SNIA Dictionary click here.

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authorization

1. The process of determining–for example via access control–that a requestor is allowed to receive a service or perform an operation.

2. The limiting of usage of information system resources to authorized users, programs, processes or other systems, formally described as controlling usage by subjects of objects.

Context Categories:
  • Network
  • Data Security

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