home/glossary/Allocation

Allocation

nounid 1476·updated May 12, 2026
candidate

The process an organization employs to determine whether security controls are defined as system-specific, hybrid, or common. The process an organization employs to assign security controls to specific information system components responsible for providing a particular security capability (e.g., router, server, remote sensor).

Classifications

Entity Type

Process0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

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

Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
Allocations
possessive
Allocation's
pluralpossessive
Allocations'

Framework definitions

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →
§1
The action or process of distributing resources or duties, or sharing out something.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
The process an organization employs to determine whether security controls are defined as system-specific, hybrid, or common. The process an organization employs to assign security controls to specific information system components responsible for providing a particular security capability (e.g., router, server, remote sensor).
NIST SP 800-371 senseview framework →
§1
The process an organization employs to determine whether security controls are defined as system-specific, hybrid, or common. The process an organization employs to assign security controls to specific information system components responsible for providing a particular security capability (e.g., router, server, remote sensor).

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.