The management of admission to system and network resources. The first part of access control is authenticating the user, which proves the identity of the user or client machine attempting to log in. The second part is granting the authenticated user access to specific resources based on company policies and the permission level assigned to the user or user group. See authentication, challenge/response, access control list, network access server, network access protection and information security.
 | Reproduced with permission from Computer Desktop Encyclopedia. Copyright (c) 1981-2009 The Computer Language Company Inc. All rights reserved. |
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