Information Owner

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Official with statutory or operational authority for specified information and responsibility for establishing the controls for its generation, collection, processing, dissemination, and disposal. See Information Steward.

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

Senses

2 more senses beyond the canonical

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 2 pending review

Official with statutory or operational authority for specified information and responsibility for establishing the controls for its generation, classification, collection, processing, dissemination, and disposal.

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

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

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Role90%rule-basedr:entity.role.named.v1

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Information Owners
possessive: Information Owner's
pluralpossessive: Information Owners'

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