Conceptimplicit authorization
Implicit Authorization
A risk pattern in content governance describing a situation where high-risk rewritten content passes through a workflow by default due to process inertia, in the absence of an explicit escalation mechanism. The content becomes effectively published without anyone having granted formal approval.
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Oct 12
The lack of a clear escalation mechanism creates implicit authorization—no one explicitly approves and no one explicitly rejects—causing risk to go live in a state of no accountability.
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