Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for setting an access privilege. The method includes: acquiring Internet Protocol (IP) addresses having a access frequency to a target application greater than or equal to a frequency threshold, selecting IP addresses accessing more than one applications per time unit from the IP addresses as to-be-processed IP addresses to generate a to-be-processed IP address set; acquiring access information, related to an access of a target application, of the to-be-processed IP address; acquiring a plurality of target IP addresses in the to-be-processed IP address set based on the access information, determining a probability of access through a gateway by a terminal pointed by each target IP address; and selecting a preset proportion or a preset number of target IP addresses from the plurality of target IP addresses in a descending order of the probability to set the access privilege.