Trustworthiness

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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The attribute of a person or organization that provides confidence to others of the qualifications, capabilities, and reliability of that entity to perform specific tasks and fulfill assigned responsibilities.

Framework senses

9 senses across 8 frameworks

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →

§1: The attribute of a person or organization that provides confidence to others of the qualifications, capabilities, and reliability of that entity to perform specific tasks and fulfill assigned responsibilities.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review: Security decisions with respect to extended investigations to determine and confirm qualifications, and suitability to perform specific tasks and responsibilities.

CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →

§1: The attribute of a person or enterprise that provides confidence to others of the qualifications, capabilities, and reliability of that entity to perform specific tasks and fulfill assigned responsibilities.

FIPS PUB 2011 senseview framework →

§1: Security decisions with respect to extended investigations to determine and confirm qualifications, and suitability to perform specific tasks and responsibilities.

NIST SP 800-391 senseview framework →

§1: The attribute of a person or enterprise that provides confidence to others of the qualifications, capabilities, and reliability of that entity to perform specific tasks and fulfill assigned responsibilities.

NIST SP 800-791 senseview framework →

§1: The attribute of a person or organization that provides confidence to others of the qualifications, capabilities, and reliability of that entity to perform specific tasks and fulfill assigned responsibilities.

ISO/IEC TS 5723:2022(en) Trustworthiness — Vocabulary1 senseview framework →

§1: ability to meet stakeholders' expectations in a verifiable way; an attribute that can be applied to services, products, technology, data and information as well as to organizations.

Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems1 senseview framework →

§1: Worthy of being trusted to fulfill whatever critical requirements may be needed for a particular component, subsystem, system, network, application, mission, enterprise, or other entity.

Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations: A System Life Cycle Approach for Security and Privacy1 senseview framework →

§1: The degree to which an information system (including the information technology components that are used to build the system) can be expected to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information being processed, stored, or transmitted by the system across the full range of threats and individuals’ privacy.