Certification
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
A comprehensive assessment of the management, operational, and technical security controls in an information system, made in support of security accreditation, to determine the extent to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security requirements for the system.
Framework senses
- §1
- A comprehensive assessment of the management, operational, and technical security controls in an information system, made in support of security accreditation, to determine the extent to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security requirements for the system.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- The process of verifying the correctness of a statement or claim and issuing a certificate as to its correctness.
- §3 · sense_3_pending_review
- Comprehensive evaluation of the technical and nontechnical security safeguards of an information system to support the accreditation process that establishes the extent to which a particular design and implementation meets a set of specified security requirements. See Security Control Assessment.
- §1
- Comprehensive evaluation of the technical and nontechnical security safeguards of an information system to support the accreditation process that establishes the extent to which a particular design and implementation meets a set of specified security requirements. See Security Control Assessment.
- §1
- A comprehensive assessment of the management, operational, and technical security controls in an information system, made in support of security accreditation, to determine the extent to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security requirements for the system.
- §1
- The process of verifying the correctness of a statement or claim and issuing a certificate as to its correctness.
- §1
- validating the authenticity of something or someone
- §2
- the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on
- §3
- a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts
- §4
- confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence