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Identification and Authentication

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The purpose of this function is to verify the identity of an entity through the use of specific credentials as a prerequisite for granting access to resources in an IT system.

MWEFFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017

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 6 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Identification and Authentications
possessive: Identification and Authentication's
pluralpossessive: Identification and Authentications'

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