Terms starting with “A”

The property of being genuine and being able to be verified and trusted; confidence in the validity of a transmission, a message, or message originator. See authentication. Source:...

Person(s) or established bodies with rights and responsibilities to exert control in an administrative sphere. (CNSSI-4009) (NISTIR)

Person(s) or established bodies with rights and responsibilities to exert control in an administrative sphere. Rationale: General definition of a commonly understood term.

Access privileges granted to a user, program, or process or the act of granting those privileges.

The official management decision given by a senior organizational official to authorize operation of an information system and to explicitly accept the risk to organizational opera...

All components of an information system to be authorized for operation by an authorizing official and excludes separately authorized systems, to which the information system is con...

See security authorization package

The official management decision given by a senior organizational official to authorize operation of an information system and to explicitly accept the risk to organizational opera...

See authorization. Source: NIST SP 800-53 Rev 4; NIST SP 800-37 Rev 1

ID The key management entity (KME) authorized to order against a traditional s hort title.

A "person who is identified and authorized by an applicant who is medically unable to cast a ballot at a polling site due to unforeseen medical necessity as set forth in an affidav...

A political committee that has been authorized by a candidate to accept contributions and make expenditures on his or her behalf. Authorized committees are often called "candidate...

The key management entity (KME) authorized to order against a traditional short title. Source: CNSSI No. 4005 (COMSEC)

A candidate, party official or one of their agents entitled to observe voting and the CANVASS. Kan. Stat. Ann. §25-3004.

The "person specifically designated by the voter in his written request to the county clerk for an alternative ballot." N.M. Admin. Code §1.10.5.7(D). In other states, AUTHORIZED A...

Any appropriately cleared individual with a requirement to access an information system (IS) for performing or assisting in a lawful government purpose. Source: DoDD 8570.01 (adapt...

Manufacturer of information security (INFOSEC) equipment authorized to produce quantities in excess of contractual requirements for direct sale to eligible buyers. Eligible buyers...

Program in which a vendor, producing an information systems security (INFOSEC) product under contract to NSA, is authorized to produce that product in numbers exceeding the contrac...

A senior (federal) official or executive with the authority to formally assume responsibility for operating an information system at an acceptable level of risk to organizational o...

An organizational official acting on behalf of an authorizing official in carrying out and coordinating the required activities associated with security authorization. Source: NIST...

A DRE-like ballot marking device, also known as a Voter Assist Terminal.

A system used to generate ballots for the AutoMARK Voter Assist Terminal. Abbreviated AIMS.

The transport of cryptographic keys, usually in encrypted form, using electronic means such as a computer network (e.g., key transport/agreement protocols). (FIPS 140-2) (NISTIR)

An algorithm which creates random passwords that have no association with a particular user. (FIPS 181) (NISTIR)