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Policy Management Authority

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Body established to oversee the creation and update of Certificate Policies, review Certification Practice Statements, review the results of CA audits for policy compliance, evaluate non-domain policies for acceptance within the domain, and generally oversee and manage the PKI certificate policies. For the FBCA, the PMA is the Federal PKI Policy Authority.

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

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PMA
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Policy Management Authorities
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Policy Management Authority's
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Policy Management Authorities'