Glossary of Compliance

Compliance Glossary

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Information Access Rights

Access Rights are the permissions an individual user or an organization application holds to read, write, delete, modify, or otherwise access a computer file, change settings or configurations, or add or remove applications. An organization’s technology administrator can configure permissions for files, folders, servers, or specific applications on the computer.

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