Entitlingauthorizing

Entitlingauthorizing is a term used primarily in information governance and security to describe the integrated process of determining what rights a subject has (entitlements) and enforcing those rights through policy-based authorization. The term is not widely standardized but appears in policy and IAM documentation to emphasize the connection between entitlement records and access decisions.

Origin and usage: The word blends entitle, meaning to grant a claim or privilege, with authorize, meaning to permit an action after evaluating rights and context. In practice, entitlingauthorizing refers to a two-stage workflow where entitlement management identifies what a subject is allowed to do, and authorization checks decide whether a particular request should be allowed at that moment.

In technology, entitlements may be expressed as permissions, attributes, or roles attached to a user or device. Authorization uses policies to permit or deny actions, factoring in context such as time, location, and risk. Example: A user may hold an entitlement to read a confidential report, and an authorization system will permit access only if the user presents valid credentials and the request satisfies policy rules.

Relationship to models: The concept aligns with access-control models such as RBAC, ABAC, or DAC, where entitlements are the static rights and authorization is the dynamic decision. The term also appears in legal or welfare contexts, where entitlement denotes a claimed right, while authorization refers to permission granted by an authority.

Criticism and usage: Some practitioners prefer to separate terminology (entitlements vs permissions) to avoid conflation; others use entitlingauthorizing as a shorthand for the combined lifecycle of entitlement provisioning and access decision.