authorization
Definition 1
General: Process used in verifying that the individual or organization who has requested or initiated an action has the right to do so.
Definition 2
Computer access: Process of granting or denying a user the access to a secure system. Most computer security systems are based on a two step process: (1) Authentication to ensure that the entity requesting access to the system is what or who it claims to be, and (2) Authorization to allow access only to those resources which are appropriate to that entity's identity.
authorization is in the Data Management, Communications, & Networks and Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership subjects.
authorization appears in the definitions of the following terms:
system access,
mandate,
obligation basis of accounting,
AAA Server,
integrated services digital network (ISDN),
certificate of need,
assignment of claims,
insertion order,
deviation permit,
proxy
and
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