logical security

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

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Logical Security consists of software safeguards for an organization's systems, including user identification and password access, authenticating, access rights and authority levels. These measures are to ensure that only authorized users are able to perform actions or access information in a network or a workstation.

MWEFFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

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

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Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: logical securities
possessive: logical security's
pluralpossessive: logical securities'

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