Information, Computer and Network Security Terms Glossary and Dictionary

Logon session

Logon session refers to a session that is started when a user logs onto a computer running on the Microsoft Windows platform. All processes in a logon session have the same primary access token. The access token contains information about the security context of the logon session, including the user's SID, the logon identifier, and the logon SID.

 

 


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Logon session