Resource owner
A resource owner is the entity responsible for controlling or managing a resource and authorizing or determining access to it.
Authorization in Action
A resource owner is the person or entity that controls protected data or resources and can authorize an application to access them.
- How it is used
- Defines who controls protected data and can delegate application access within OAuth and ownership-based authorization policies.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the role through an OAuth scenario and connects ownership to ABAC and Cedar policies without detailing token or policy syntax.
- Examples
- Uses Kate, BI Explorer, documents, workspaces, department attributes, clearance, time, and network risk as access examples.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate/understand how ownership, delegated consent, tokens, and runtime authorization combine in protected-resource access.
Acing the CCNA Exam: Volume 2 Advanced Networking and Security
A resource owner is the entity that can grant an application permission to access a protected resource.
- How it is used
- Delegates permission for an application to access protected resources without exposing the owner’s credentials.
- How deep it goes
- Traces the owner’s authorization through the grant and access-token exchange in the basic OAuth 2.0 process.
- Examples
- Uses Google Calendar access and third-party social-media tools as concrete delegation examples.
- What you can do after
- Apply OAuth 2.0 terminology to identify who authorizes access and how delegated access reaches protected resources.
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Related concepts
- OAuthpart of · OAuth is an authorization framework that enables a client to obtain limited, delegated access to protected resources without receiving the resource owner's credentials.
- sender-constrained tokenused by · A sender-constrained token is a token cryptographically or transport-layer bound to a particular legitimate presenter so that possession alone is insufficient for its use.
- OAuth scopeconfigures · An OAuth scope is a named authorization specifying the access rights granted to a client or token.
- remediationuses · Remediation is the process of correcting, containing, or reducing the effects of an identified weakness, fault, vulnerability, or incident.
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