Federal Information Processing Standard

nounverified·updated Oct 7, 2026

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A standard for adoption and use by federal departments and agencies that has been developed within the Information Technology Laboratory and published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. A FIPS covers some topic in information technology in order to achieve a common level of quality or some level of interoperability.

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

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

NIST SP 800-172r3acronym list

FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standards

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Authority Document100%manual reviewI-079.framework_split

Ddorianclast reviewed —

Framework is split by kind (Dorian, 2026-10-07; cki DESIGN.md I-079)

Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

?unassignedlast reviewed —

Information Class

Cui70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: FIPS
plural: Federal Information Processing Standards
possessive: Federal Information Processing Standard's
pluralpossessive: Federal Information Processing Standards'

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