RBAC
n.Stands for Role-Based Access Control. A way of managing computer security where people get access to files or systems based on their specific job role.
n.Abbreviation for Role-Based Access Control. A security paradigm in which system access is restricted to authorised users based on their defined organisational roles rather than individual identities.
“The company uses RBAC to manage folder permissions.”
“After the security audit, the IT department implemented RBAC to ensure that junior staff could not modify sensitive financial records.”
“By adopting an RBAC framework, the enterprise significantly reduced the administrative overhead associated with onboarding new employees, as permissions were automatically inherited from their assigned job functions.”
Commonly used in technical and cybersecurity contexts; often functions as a modifier before other nouns like 'model' or 'system'.
An initialism of role-based access control. The term emerged from formal security models developed in the 1990s, notably associated with David Ferraiolo and Richard Kuhn.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.