Authorization Boundary

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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 connected.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 2 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Requirement85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Authorization Boundaries
possessive: Authorization Boundary's
pluralpossessive: Authorization Boundaries'

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