Role Explosion

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Security Core

Record: lexicon:role-explosion

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which roles proliferate into many narrow definitions as access requirements grow.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Policy Maintenance and before Speed.

Category

• Security Privacy Compliance

In tension with

• Role-Based Access Control
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) / Role Explosion

Linked from

• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• The resolutions