Systems and methods for controlling privileged operations

Systems and methods for controlling privileged operations. The system and method may comprise the steps of: providing a kernel module having a kernel authorization subsystem, the kernel module being loadable to a client computer system and configured to intercept file operations, wherein the kernel authorization subsystem may manage authorization of the one or more file operations; registering a listener for the kernel authorization subsystem; monitoring the file operations for a file access, and calling the registered listener by the kernel authorization subsystem when the kernel authorization subsystem detects the file access; calling a privileged daemon by the kernel module, when identifying the file access; and checking a policy, by the privileged daemon, and determining, based on the policy, whether at least one applied rule is applicable. If the at least one applied rule is applicable, the privileged daemon may initialize a launcher module, which may launch the target application.