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Policy Certification Authority

nounid 3617·updated May 9, 2026
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Second level of the PKI Certification Management Authority that formulates the security policy under which it and its subordinate CAs will issue public key certificates.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Organization85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

acronym
PCA
plural
Policy Certification Authorities
possessive
Policy Certification Authority's
pluralpossessive
Policy Certification Authorities'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
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Second level of the PKI Certification Management Authority that formulates the security policy under which it and its subordinate CAs will issue public key certificates.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Second level of the PKI Certification Management Authority that formulates the security policy under which it and its subordinate CAs will issue public key certificates.

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Incoming relationships

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