Allocation
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
The process an organization employs to determine whether security controls are defined as system-specific, hybrid, or common. The process an organization employs to assign security controls to specific information system components responsible for providing a particular security capability (e.g., router, server, remote sensor).
polysemousNISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012
The action or process of distributing resources or duties, or sharing out something.
Wordset Dictionary
(computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions
Wordset Dictionary
the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning
Wordset Dictionary
a share set aside for a specific purpose
Classifications
Entity Type
Process0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- allotmentapportioningapportionmentassignationparcelingparcellingstorage allocation
- plural
- Allocations
- possessive
- Allocation's
- pluralpossessive
- Allocations'