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Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

An authorization model in which permissions are attached to roles, and users acquire permissions by being assigned roles rather than individually. RBAC simplifies least-privilege administration at scale; misconfigured or overly broad roles are a leading cause of cloud and Kubernetes privilege escalation.

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