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organizational policy

MWEid 163501·updated Aug 30, 2026
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organizational+policy

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NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
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e0154
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The accounts are in violation of organizational policy, orthe sentence this term was read in
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This is a compositional phrase, not a term of art with a fixed technical definition. It combines two ordinary words: "organizational" (belonging to or set by an entity such as a company, agency, or institution) and "policy" (a governing rule or directive). An organizational policy details the purpose, ownership, roles, and responsibilities of an institution, and is often the highest-level policy statement from which all other policies, standards, guidelines, or procedures draw their authority. In NIST SP 800-53, the phrase appears in control AC-2(3), listing conditions under which accounts must be disabled — including when they "are in violation of organizational policy" — where it simply means any binding rule or directive the organization has established. The phrase functions as a catch-all reference to whatever governing rules the organization has formally adopted; it does not denote a specific, enumerated construct with its own canonical definition in the standards literature.

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