home/glossary/authentication mechanism

authentication mechanism

nounid 1595·updated May 9, 2026
candidate

Hardware or software-based mechanisms that forces users, devices, or processes to prove their identity before accessing data on an information system.

polysemousMWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Control92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
authentication mechanisms
possessive
authentication mechanism's
pluralpossessive
authentication mechanisms'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§1
Hardware or software-based mechanisms that forces users, devices, or processes to prove their identity before accessing data on an information system.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →
§1
Hardware-or software-based mechanisms that force users to prove their identity before accessing data on a device.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
Hardware or software-based mechanisms that forces users, devices, or processes to prove their identity before accessing data on an information system.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Hardware or software-based mechanisms that forces users, devices, or processes to prove their identity before accessing data on an information system.
NIST SP 800-721 senseview framework →
§1
Hardware-or software-based mechanisms that force users to prove their identity before accessing data on a device.
NIST SP 800-1241 senseview framework →
§1
Hardware-or software-based mechanisms that force users to prove their identity before accessing data on a device.

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.