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Firecall
A firecall is a method that allows someone to get temporary or emergency access to a secure computer or information system to perform a particular function. Temporary authority is granted for only a limited amount of time to keep the system accounts secure or inaccessible by those otherwise unauthorized to access them.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Firecall
Typically, a firecall is made by a security administrator or information owner who can grant the temporary privileges via one-time-use credentials, such as a user ID or password. A firecall may be necessary under circumstances when an employee needs to work outside of normal business hours or requires elevated privilege to fix a computer problem.
Related terms
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Intranet
- SLO (Service-Level Objective)
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Scalability
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Data Center
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Synchronous
- Multitenancy
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- IT Services
- Authorization
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)