The Admission tag covers security disclosures and statements that clarify how breaches or unauthorized access occurred.
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Admission is the decision to allow or deny a user, device, application, or service access to a resource. In information security, it usually combines authentication—checking who or what is requesting access—with authorization—determining which actions and resources are permitted. The term can also describe network or application admission controls that assess a device’s identity, configuration, or security state before allowing it to connect.
Weak admission controls can expose systems through stolen credentials, missing multi-factor authentication, misconfigured access-control lists, or roles that grant more privilege than necessary. Effective controls apply least privilege, restrict access by context where appropriate, and review permissions as people, devices, and services change. Recording both successful and rejected admission decisions supports detection and investigation of suspicious access, while periodic testing helps identify bypasses and unsafe defaults.
The Singapore division of Starbucks, the popular American coffeehouse chain, has admitted that it suffered a data breach incident impacting over 219,000 of its customers. [...]