Emergency Access

Definitions

1. A controlled way to grant high-privilege access during urgent situations when normal approval paths are too slow or unavailable. Good emergency access mechanisms are tightly logged, time-limited, and reviewed afterward so they do not become permanent backdoors.

   In plain English: Special high-level access used only in urgent situations.

   Example: "They used the emergency access account during the outage, then rotated its credentials and reviewed the session."

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