designated personnel
163503·updated Aug 30, 2026A collective noun for individuals or job roles within an organization that have been formally assigned—by policy, regulation, or organizational decision—specific security, privacy, or compliance responsibilities, and to whom corresponding obligations (such as receiving policy disseminations, executing controls, or leading incident response) are explicitly directed. Authority documents such as the DHS 4300A Sensitive Systems policy use the expression to introduce the roster of roles that "play a major role in the planning and implementation of information security requirements," while NIST SP 800-53 control language recurrently names "organization-defined personnel or roles" as the recipients of policy documents and procedural dissemination. Across frameworks the expression functions as a placeholder that an organization fills in during tailoring—naming the CISOs, privacy officers, system owners, or other accountable parties—rather than denoting a single fixed role; the underlying concept is that clearly assigning security responsibility to specific individuals or roles ensures accountability and helps prevent lapses in security management.
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and designated personnel or roles within:the sentence this term was read in
generalized from a web lookup of the quoted expression at proposal time Verdict: compositional.
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS 4300A, “Sensitive Systems”
- Information Security Policies According to NIST - Information Shield
- Assigned Security Responsibility Sample Clauses
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A collective noun for the set of individuals or job roles within an organization that have been formally identified—by name, title, or role—by management authority as having specific security, privacy, or compliance duties. It is distinguished from the general workforce by the act of explicit organizational assignment: an authority document names or categorizes these people precisely so that obligations (receiving policy documents, acting on security notices, accepting transfer notifications, holding clearances, completing role-based training) attach to them rather than to everyone or no one in particular. In practice, standards bodies use it as a placeholder—often written as "organization-defined personnel or roles"—that each organization must populate with actual names or positions when implementing a control, making the expression a structural slot in control language rather than a fixed roster.
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Proposed during multiword review of this document in the CKI mapping queue.
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Sensitivity
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Variants
- plural
- designated personnels
- possessive
- designated personnel's
- pluralpossessive
- designated personnels'
Framework definitions
- §1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 2 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · web_lookup_draft
- A collective noun for individuals or job roles within an organization that have been formally assigned—by policy, regulation, or organizational decision—specific security, privacy, or compliance responsibilities, and to whom corresponding obligations (such as receiving policy disseminations, executing controls, or leading incident response) are explicitly directed. Authority documents such as the DHS 4300A Sensitive Systems policy use the expression to introduce the roster of roles that "play a major role in the planning and implementation of information security requirements," while NIST SP 800-53 control language recurrently names "organization-defined personnel or roles" as the recipients of policy documents and procedural dissemination. Across frameworks the expression functions as a placeholder that an organization fills in during tailoring—naming the CISOs, privacy officers, system owners, or other accountable parties—rather than denoting a single fixed role; the underlying concept is that clearly assigning security responsibility to specific individuals or roles ensures accountability and helps prevent lapses in security management.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column