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Authorization

Authorization is the process that determines what authenticated users, services, or devices are allowed to access or perform within systems, enforcing policy-based permissions on data, applications, and infrastructure in order to support least privilege, compliance requirements, and controlled enterprise operations.

  • 63 articles
  • 160 companies
  • Most covered: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Netskope, Varonis

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160 companies that coverage ties to the term, listed by how often, each linked to its own record.

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MCP

curl -X POST https://mcp.decisioninsights.ai/api/mcp-public \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"arguments":{"slug":"authorization"},"name":"di_get_term"}}'

REST

GET https://api.decisioninsights.ai/api/public/v1/glossary/8030022c-5a03-444a-b62d-4b790efed29e

CLI

di get-glossary --slug authorization

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It's a known term One entry, with its type (topic) name
It's in real use 63 articles tag it; 160 companies are tied to it subjectOf
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