Access Control is a broad term we use to describe any way that we allocate or restrict the ability to read, modify, delete, or create resources within a system. These objects may be self-contained systems like a server or a database, but more commonly, they’re components of one of those systems, like a table or a schema, or even a single column or row within one of those tables.
Most of us make access control decisions every single day. When we post a picture of our dinner on social media, we decide who should ...