User Identification
nounid
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The process, control, or information by which a user identifies himself or herself to the system as a valid user (as opposed to authentication).
MWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.05.01
Classifications
Entity Type
Process0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
Regulated75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
Pii70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- plural
- User Identifications
- possessive
- User Identification's
- pluralpossessive
- User Identifications'
Framework definitions
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
- §1
- The process, control, or information by which a user identifies himself or herself to the system as a valid user (as opposed to authentication).
- §1 · attested_usage_pack_match
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- The process, control, or information by which a user identifies himself or herself to the system as a valid user (as opposed to authentication).DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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