organizational personnel
163517·updated Aug 30, 2026The aggregate of individuals who work within or on behalf of an organization and who hold duties, responsibilities, or roles that are relevant to the organization's security, privacy, or compliance posture. It is distinguished from narrower categories such as "security staff" or "privileged users" by its breadth: it spans every stratum and function—executives, system owners, administrators, auditors, and general users—while remaining bounded to those in the organizational trust relationship (as opposed to the general public or anonymous parties). In practice, standards and control frameworks use the expression as a recipient class for notifications, training, policy dissemination, and accountability requirements, often pairing it with "or roles" to allow organizations to address either named individuals or the positions they occupy.
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. Time periods for the notification of organizational personnel or roles may vary.the sentence this term was read in
generalized from a web lookup of the quoted expression at proposal time Verdict: compositional.
- NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 1 Recommended Security Controls
- NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 – PERSONNEL SECURITY | Compliance 360 Software
- NIST Special Publication 800 NIST SP 800-171r3
- Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations
- . ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES | NIST SP 800-37
- Personnel Security (PS) definition
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The aggregate of individuals who work within or on behalf of an organization and who hold duties, responsibilities, or roles that are relevant to the organization's security, privacy, or compliance posture. It is distinguished from narrower categories such as "security staff" or "privileged users" by its breadth: it spans every stratum and function—executives, system owners, administrators, auditors, and general users—while remaining bounded to those in the organizational trust relationship (as opposed to the general public or anonymous parties). In practice, standards and control frameworks use the expression as a recipient class for notifications, training, policy dissemination, and accountability requirements, often pairing it with "or roles" to allow organizations to address either named individuals or the positions they occupy.
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Proposed during multiword review of this document in the CKI mapping queue.
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- plural
- organizational personnels
- possessive
- organizational personnel's
- pluralpossessive
- organizational personnels'
Framework definitions
- §1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 11 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · web_lookup_draft
- The aggregate of individuals who work within or on behalf of an organization and who hold duties, responsibilities, or roles that are relevant to the organization's security, privacy, or compliance posture. It is distinguished from narrower categories such as "security staff" or "privileged users" by its breadth: it spans every stratum and function—executives, system owners, administrators, auditors, and general users—while remaining bounded to those in the organizational trust relationship (as opposed to the general public or anonymous parties). In practice, standards and control frameworks use the expression as a recipient class for notifications, training, policy dissemination, and accountability requirements, often pairing it with "or roles" to allow organizations to address either named individuals or the positions they occupy.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column