Acceptable use policy
nounverified· unreviewed·updated Aug 30, 2026
A document that establishes an agreement between users and the enterprise and defines for all parties the ranges of use that are approved before users can gain access to a network or the Internet.
MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary
Senses
ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary
A policy that establishes an agreement between users and the enterprise and defines for all parties' the ranges of use that are approved before gaining access to a network or the Internet
NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage reviewer confirmed
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Classifications
Entity Type
Requirement0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
Internal75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Acceptable use policies
- possessive
- Acceptable use policy's
- pluralpossessive
- Acceptable use policies'