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user account

nounid 4581·updated Aug 30, 2026
verified· unreviewed

Information that tells a computer which files and folders to access for a specific user, which personal preferences to have in place, and what can be accessed by the user.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems2 citations · 2 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.01.06.b ¶ 103.05.03 ¶ 2

Classifications

Entity Type

Identity0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
online account
plural
user accounts
possessive
user account's
pluralpossessive
user accounts'

Framework definitions

NERC CIP-004-6 (Personnel & Training) v61 senseview framework →
§1
Information that tells a computer which files and folders to access for a specific user, which personal preferences to have in place, and what can be accessed by the user.
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 2 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
Information that tells a computer which files and folders to access for a specific user, which personal preferences to have in place, and what can be accessed by the user.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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