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confidentiality, integrity, and availability

nounid 1963·updated Aug 30, 2026
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A triad of security practices that: (1) prohibit an unauthorized entity from accessing, creating, modifying, disclosing or destroying information; and (2) require information systems are operational when needed by authorized users.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems3 citations · 3 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
3.2.2 ¶ 783.2.2 ¶ 1493.2.2 ¶ 157

Classifications

Entity Type

Framework0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
confidentiality, integrity, availability
plural
confidentiality, integrity, and availabilities
possessive
confidentiality, integrity, and availability's
pluralpossessive
confidentiality, integrity, and availabilities'

Framework definitions

NY DFS Part 500 (NYCRR Title 23, Chapter 1, Part 500)1 senseview framework →
§1
A triad of security practices that: (1) prohibit an unauthorized entity from accessing, creating, modifying, disclosing or destroying information; and (2) require information systems are operational when needed by authorized users.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_pack_match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 3 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A triad of security practices that: (1) prohibit an unauthorized entity from accessing, creating, modifying, disclosing or destroying information; and (2) require information systems are operational when needed by authorized users.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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Incoming relationships

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