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Security Control Assessment

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The testing or evaluation of security controls to determine the extent to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security requirements for an information system or organization. [18]

polysemousMWENIST SP 800-172r3

Senses

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

The testing and/or evaluation of the management, operational, and technical security controls in an information system to determine the extent to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security requirements for the system.

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

The testing and/or evaluation of the management, operational, and technical security controls to determine the extent to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security requirements for the system and/or enterprise.

NIST SP 800-171r3glossary

The testing or evaluation of security controls to determine the extent to which the controls are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired outcome with respect to meeting the security requirements for an information system or organization. [13]

Classifications

Entity Type

Organizational Task100%manual reviewaxis_review_queue.v1
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Sensitivity

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

Cui65%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

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