Trustworthiness

Security decisions with respect to extended investigations to determine and confirm qualifications, and suitability to perform specific tasks and responsibilities.

The attribute of a person or enterprise that provides confidence to others of the qualifications, capabilities, and reliability of that entity to perform specific tasks and fulfill assigned responsibilities.

ability to meet stakeholders' expectations in a verifiable way; an attribute that can be applied to services, products, technology, data and information as well as to organizations.

Worthy of being trusted to fulfill whatever critical requirements may be needed for a particular component, subsystem, system, network, application, mission, enterprise, or other entity.

The degree to which an information system (including the information technology components that are used to build the system) can be expected to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information being processed, stored, or transmitted by the system across the full range of threats and individuals’ privacy.

the trait of deserving trust and confidence