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Principal

nounid 3652·updated May 9, 2026
candidate

An entity whose identity can be authenticated.

Classifications

Entity Type

Identity92%rule-basedr:entity.identity.account.v1

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Principals
possessive
Principal's
pluralpossessive
Principals'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
An entity whose identity can be authenticated.
FIPS PUB 1961 senseview framework →
§1
An entity whose identity can be authenticated.

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.