Authorization is the process of granting rights to use an organization's IT assets, systems, applications, and data to a specific user. True or false?

True

Explanation:

Usually preceded by authentication (which means confirming the identity of a user), authorization is the process of granting access level rights to a user to use an organization's resources such as IT assets, systems, applications, and files.

By access level rights, we mean that depending on the level of authority of the user, they can access certain resources. For example, a mere user (or a regular staff) in an organization, might not have some administrative privileges such as editing files which might be given to other users who are admins. In other words, authorization also means controlling what users access what resources.

True

Explanation:

In computing context, authorization is a process that grant a specific user to use the computer resources that can include both hardware and software. In some cases, authorization is also granted to access private-owned data. Usually, the authorization is implemented by having a user to entry username and password in order to log into a system to use the resources.

There might also be different level of authorization. Each specific user has different privileged level to use the resources. For example, a staff from finance department can access the corporate financial information but the same info is not available to other department staffs