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Reference Monitor

nounid 3802·updated May 9, 2026
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The security engineering term for IT functionality that— 1) controls all access, 2) cannot be bypassed, 3) is tamper-resistant, and 4) provides confidence that the other three items are true.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Control95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Reference Monitors
possessive
Reference Monitor's
pluralpossessive
Reference Monitors'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →
§1
The security engineering term for IT functionality that— 1) controls all access, 2) cannot be bypassed, 3) is tamper-resistant, and 4) provides confidence that the other three items are true.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
Concept of an abstract machine that enforces Target of Evaluation (TOE) access control policies.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Concept of an abstract machine that enforces Target of Evaluation (TOE) access control policies.
NIST SP 800-331 senseview framework →
§1
The security engineering term for IT functionality that— 1) controls all access, 2) cannot be bypassed, 3) is tamper-resistant, and 4) provides confidence that the other three items are true.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
The security engineering term for IT functionality that— 1) controls all access, 2) cannot be bypassed, 3) is tamper-resistant, and 4) provides confidence that the other three items are true.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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Incoming relationships

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