# Context-Aware Authorization

> The ability to base access decisions on the runtime context of a request, such as its attributes, its environment and the resource's state.

Record: `lexicon:context-aware-authorization`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Security Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/security-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-context-aware-authorization

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Confidentiality of Stored Data](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/confidentiality-of-stored-data.md) and before [Control Selection](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/control-selection.md).

## Category

- [Security Privacy Compliance](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/security-privacy-compliance.md)

## Enabled by

- [ABAC](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/attribute-based-access-control.md)

## Linked from

- [Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-security-privacy-compliance-governance.md)