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Privileged Account

nounid 3672·updated Aug 28, 2026
verified

A system account with the authorizations of a privileged user.

polysemousMWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems9 citations · 9 defined by this document · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.01.0603.01.06.a03.01.06.b03.01.06.b ¶ 103.01.06.b ¶ 103.01.06.b ¶ 103.05.03 ¶ 103.05.04 ¶ 13.2.2 ¶ 127

Classifications

Entity Type

Identity0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Restricted85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

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

Variants

alternatephrasing
Privileged Accounts
plural
Privileged AccountsPrivileged Accountses
possessive
Privileged Account'sPrivileged Accounts's
pluralpossessive
Privileged Accounts'Privileged Accountses'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →
§1
An information system account with approved authorizations of a privileged user.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
An information system account with authorizations of a privileged user.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
An information system account with approved authorizations of a privileged user.
NIST SP 800-531 senseview framework →
§1
An information system account with authorizations of a privileged user.
NIST SP 800-121 senseview framework →
§1
Individuals who have access to set “access rights” for users on a given system. Sometimes referred to as system or network administrative accounts.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
A system account with the authorizations of a privileged user.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
An information system account with approved authorizations of a privileged user.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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.