Accountability

The principle that individuals using a facility or a computer system must be identifiable. With accountability, violations or attempted violations of system security can be traced to individuals who can then be held responsible.

the quality of subordinate workers being responsible for his/her own work and answerable to a superior.

principle that individuals, organizations, and the community are responsible for their actions and may be required to explain them to others

The security goal that generates the requirement for actions of an entity to be traced uniquely to that entity. This supports non-repudiation, deterrence, fault isolation, intrusion detection and prevention, and after-action recovery and legal action.

1. The property that ensures that the actions of an individual or an institution may be traced uniquely to that individual or institution. [After X9.57] 2. In information systems (IS), the process of tracing IS activities to a responsible source. [INFOSEC-99] 3. In COMSEC, the principle that an individual is entrusted to safeguard and control equipment, keying material, and information and is answerable to proper authority for the loss or misuse of that equipment or information. [INFOSEC-99] 4. The property that ensures that the actions of an entity may be traced to that entity [7498-2].