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What is Security Clearance?

Security clearance is the vetting that controls who may access certain government buildings, zones and information, from baseline checks through to the highest national security levels. Many public-sector sites mix clearance levels in one building.

That mix is a workplace-operations problem: cleared-only zones need booking permissions that respect vetting status, visitors need escorting rules, and an accurate live record of who is where stops being admin and starts being a security control. See visitor management and access control.

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