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Electronic Key Management System

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Interoperable collection of systems being developed by services and agencies of the U.S. government to automate the planning, ordering, generating, distributing, storing, filling, using, and destroying of electronic key and management of other types of COMSEC material.

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Classifications

Entity Type

System92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

Regulated88%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Cui85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

acronym
EKMS
plural
Electronic Key Management Systems
possessive
Electronic Key Management System's
pluralpossessive
Electronic Key Management Systems'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
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Interoperable collection of systems being developed by services and agencies of the U.S. government to automate the planning, ordering, generating, distributing, storing, filling, using, and destroying of electronic key and management of other types of COMSEC material.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Interoperable collection of systems being developed by services and agencies of the U.S. government to automate the planning, ordering, generating, distributing, storing, filling, using, and destroying of electronic key and management of other types of COMSEC material.

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