Re: Politically correct term for four-eyes authorization?

[John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

I may be a little late to this thread, but my initial reaction was to call
it "two-minds" agreement. That, to me, doesn't connote any degree of access
or privileges, just that two people agree on a common response or solution
to something.

Maybe the documentation around missile launches would have a term that you
could use ... IIRC it took at least two people working in tandem to launch
an ICBM.

My 2Â,

JG

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Robert Fekete <fekete77 -dot- robert -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have a problem with a term in our product documentation (and the UI as
> well), and I'd like to ask for your collective wisdom.
>
> In line with the four-eyes principle, our product can require an authorizer
> to approve (and possibly review) the actions of a user. Currently, this is
> dubbed four-eyes authorization. The problem is that the "4-eyes" term is
> derogatory and should be changed. Possible candidates we found and are
> commonly used are "dual control" and "two-person rule", but these are not
> as accurate, because in every definition I could find (for example,
>
> http://www.theserverside.com/report/Integration-of-User-Control-Mechanisms-into-Secure-Critical-Applications
> ), they refer to two users who have the same privileges to perform an
> action, but can only do so together. In our setup, this is not the case,
> one of the users is who performs the action, and the other approves that.
>
> If any of you works in an IT security or finance-related field, have you
> encountered a problem with four-eyes before? (And how did you solve it?)
>
> Thanks a lot for your ideas in advance.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Robert Fekete
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