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  2. Access control - Wikipedia

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    Common physical security access control with a finger print A sailor checks an identification card (ID) before allowing a vehicle to enter a military installation.. In physical security and information security, access control (AC) is the selective restriction of access to a place or other resource, while access management describes the process.

  3. Need to know - Wikipedia

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    The discretionary access control mechanisms of some operating systems can be used to enforce need to know. [2] In this case, the owner of a file determines whether another person should have access. Need to know is often concurrently applied with mandatory access control schemes, in which the lack of an official approval (such as a clearance ...

  4. Computer access control - Wikipedia

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    In computer security, general access control includes identification, authorization, authentication, access approval, and audit.A more narrow definition of access control would cover only access approval, whereby the system makes a decision to grant or reject an access request from an already authenticated subject, based on what the subject is authorized to access.

  5. Relationship-based access control - Wikipedia

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    In computer systems security, Relationship-based access control (ReBAC) defines an authorization paradigm where a subject's permission to access a resource is defined by the presence of relationships between those subjects and resources. In general, authorization in ReBAC is performed by traversing the directed graph of relationships.

  6. Middle-range theory (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Examples of middle-range theories are theories of reference groups, social mobility, normalization processes, role conflict and the formation of social norms. [3] The middle-range approach has played a role in turning sociology into an increasingly empirically oriented discipline. [7] This was also important in post-war thought.

  7. Social network - Wikipedia

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    Examples of a random network and a scale-free network. Each graph has 32 nodes and 32 links. Note the "hubs" (large-degree nodes) in the scale-free diagram (on the right). Scale-free networks: A scale-free network is a network whose degree distribution follows a power law, at least asymptotically.

  8. NIST RBAC model - Wikipedia

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    The NIST RBAC model is a standardized definition of role-based access control. Although originally developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology , the standard was adopted and is copyrighted and distributed as INCITS 359-2004 by the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS).

  9. Institution - Wikipedia

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    See jurisprudence, philosophy of law, sociology of law. Penal systems: The penal systems acts upon prisoners and the guards. Prison is a separate environment from that of normal society; prisoners and guards form their own communities and create their own social norms. Guards serve as "social control agents" who discipline and provide security ...