accountability

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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The security goal that generates the requirement for actions of an entity to be traced uniquely to that entity. This supports non-repudiation, deterrence, fault isolation, intrusion detection and prevention, and after-action recovery and legal action.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Requirement85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

4 surface forms

alternatephrasing: Accountability
plural: accountabilities
possessive: accountability's
pluralpossessive: accountabilities'

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