Applications and Roles --------------------------------- Application designers devise security permissions and roles specific to applications. These roles represent a set of rights authorizing principals to perform operations or access resources that must be allowed to fulfill a specific coherent function within applications. These rights to access resources are the permissions. The set of these permissions, needed for a logical function to be conducted in the application, is a role.
To be concise we extract the following glossary definitions: Permission: A right required by a system or application to authorize principals to perform a specific operation or access a resource in some manner. Role: A set of permissions required by a principal to be authorized to fulfill a logical function within a system or application. Thanks, Alex
