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access control

[′ak‚ses kən‚trōl]
(computer science)
A restriction on the operations that a user of a computer system may perform on files and other resources of the system.

access control

The management of admission to system and network resources. It grants authenticated users access to specific resources based on company policies and the permission level assigned to the user or user group. Access control often includes authentication, which proves the identity of the user or client machine attempting to log in. See network access control, authentication, access control list and information security.
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Contract notice: supply and installation of access controls for buried and semi-underground containers and complete underground, semi-underground containers with or without access control and container parts reference number: 2019-fcs-acp-0010
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Contract notice: supply and installation of access controls for buried and semi-underground containers and complete containers, underground, semi-underground with or without access control and container parts
Supply And Installation Of Access Controls For Buried And Semi-underground Containers And Complete Containers, Underground, Semi-underground With Or Without Access Control And Container Parts

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