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Acceptable use policy

nounid 1389·updated Aug 30, 2026
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A document that establishes an agreement between users and the enterprise and defines for all parties the ranges of use that are approved before users can gain access to a network or the Internet.

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Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems1 citation · 1 confirmed by a reviewer · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
3.2.2 ¶ 70

Classifications

Entity Type

Requirement0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Internal75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
Acceptable use policies
possessive
Acceptable use policy's
pluralpossessive
Acceptable use policies'

Framework definitions

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary1 senseview framework →
§1
A policy that establishes an agreement between users and the enterprise and defines for all parties' the ranges of use that are approved before gaining access to a network or the Internet
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
§1
A document that establishes an agreement between users and the enterprise and defines for all parties the ranges of use that are approved before users can gain access to a network or the Internet.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
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.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A document that establishes an agreement between users and the enterprise and defines for all parties the ranges of use that are approved before users can gain access to a network or the Internet.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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