Authorization
Environmental Awareness Principle
A principle stating that access decisions must consider the wider activity context, not just the isolated request.
Definition
The Environmental Awareness Principle requires the decision process to take surrounding activity into account. A request should not be evaluated in isolation if other actions on other targets change its meaning or risk. This supports cross-application reasoning, contextual separation of duties, and more realistic risk-aware authorization.
The Ariovis perspective
Ariovis separates governed entitlements, authentication and runtime authorization. When a decision depends on the user, resource, action and context, it should be made at the moment of use.
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