accountability
nounid
1417·updated May 9, 2026candidate
The security goal that generates the requirement for actions of an entity to be traced uniquely to that entity. This supports non-repudiation, deterrence, fault isolation, intrusion detection and prevention, and after-action recovery and legal action.
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Requirement85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- alternatephrasing
- Accountability
- plural
- accountabilities
- possessive
- accountability's
- pluralpossessive
- accountabilities'
Framework definitions
- §1
- The ability to map a given activity or event back to the responsible party
- §1
- The fact or condition of being required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsibility.
- §1
- The fact or condition of being required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsibility.
- §1
- The security goal that generates the requirement for actions of an entity to be traced uniquely to that entity. This supports non-repudiation, deterrence, fault isolation, intrusion detection and prevention, and after-action recovery and legal action.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- Principle that an individual is entrusted to safeguard and control equipment, keying material, and information and is answerable to proper authority for the loss or misuse of that equipment or information.
- §1
- Principle that an individual is entrusted to safeguard and control equipment, keying material, and information and is answerable to proper authority for the loss or misuse of that equipment or information.
- §1
- The security goal that generates the requirement for actions of an entity to be traced uniquely to that entity. This supports non-repudiation, deterrence, fault isolation, intrusion detection and prevention, and after-action recovery and legal action.
- §1
- 1) relates to an allocated responsibility. The responsibility can be based on regulation or agreement or through assignment as part of delegation; 2) For systems, a property that ensures that actions of an entity can be traced uniquely to the entity; 3) In a governance context, the obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities, for completion of a deliverable or task, accept the responsibility for those activities, deliverables or tasks, and to disclose the results in a transparent manner.
- §2 · sense_2_pending_review
- "accountable" (adjective vs. noun): answerable for actions, decisions, and performance
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