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service provider

nounid 4131·updated Aug 28, 2026
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A supplier (such as a service organization) engaged to provide services to the entity. Service providers include outsourced service providers as well as suppliers that provide services not associated with business functions, such as janitorial, legal, and audit services.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems8 citations · 8 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.06.05.d ¶ 103.11.01.b ¶ 103.12.05.c ¶ 203.16.02.b ¶ 203.16.03.b03.16.03.c03.17.03.b ¶ 13.2.2 ¶ 44

Classifications

Entity Type

Organization0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Pii75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
service providers
possessive
service provider's
pluralpossessive
service providers'

Framework definitions

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
§1
A business that provides its customers with a service.
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →
§1
A business that provides its customers with a service.
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
§1
For purposes of the Information Security Standards, service provider means any person or entity that maintains, processes, or otherwise is permitted access to customer information or consumer information through its provision of services directly to a financial institution.
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 8 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
TSP Section 1001 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
A supplier (such as a service organization) engaged to provide services to the entity. Service providers include outsourced service providers as well as suppliers that provide services not associated with business functions, such as janitorial, legal, and audit services.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
For purposes of the Information Security Standards, service provider means any person or entity that maintains, processes, or otherwise is permitted access to customer information or consumer information through its provision of services directly to a financial institution.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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