Certification authority
nounid
1782·updated Aug 30, 2026verified· unreviewed
1. For Certification and Accreditation (C&A) (C&A Assessment): Official responsible for performing the comprehensive evaluation of the security features of an information system and determining the degree to which it meets its security requirements 2. For Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): A trusted third party that issues digital certificates and verifies the identity of the holder of the digital certificate.
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Classifications
Entity Type
Organization0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
Cui70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- acronym
- CA
- plural
- Certification authorities
- possessive
- Certification authority's
- pluralpossessive
- Certification authorities'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A trusted third party that serves authentication infrastructures or enterprises and registers entities and issues them certificates
- §1
- A trusted entity that issues and revokes public key certificates.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- The entity in a public key infrastructure (PKI) that is responsible for issuing certificates and exacting compliance to a PKI policy.
- §3 · sense_3_pending_review
- 1. For Certification and Accreditation (C&A) (C&A Assessment): Official responsible for performing the comprehensive evaluation of the security features of an information system and determining the degree to which it meets its security requirements 2. For Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): A trusted third party that issues digital certificates and verifies the identity of the holder of the digital certificate.
- §1
- 1. For Certification and Accreditation (C&A) (C&A Assessment): Official responsible for performing the comprehensive evaluation of the security features of an information system and determining the degree to which it meets its security requirements 2. For Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): A trusted third party that issues digital certificates and verifies the identity of the holder of the digital certificate.
- §1
- A trusted entity that issues and revokes public key certificates.
- §1
- The entity in a public key infrastructure (PKI) that is responsible for issuing certificates and exacting compliance to a PKI policy.
- §1
- The entity in a public key infrastructure (PKI) that is responsible for issuing certificates and exacting compliance to a PKI policy.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 1. For Certification and Accreditation (C&A) (C&A Assessment): Official responsible for performing the comprehensive evaluation of the security features of an information system and determining the degree to which it meets its security requirements 2. For Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): A trusted third party that issues digital certificates and verifies the identity of the holder of the digital certificate.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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