Term:Security Service

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NIST IR 7298

Security Service - A capability that supports one, or many, of the security goals. Examples of security services are key management, access control, and authentication. SOURCE: SP 800-27A

NIST SP 800-27rA

Security Service - A capability that supports one, or many, of the security goals. Examples of security services are key management, access control, and authentication.

NIST SP 800-95

Security Service - A processing or communication service that is provided by a system to give a specific kind of protection to resources, where said resources may reside with said system or reside with other systems, for example, an authentication service or a PKI-based document attribution and authentication service. A security service is a superset of AAA services. Security services typically implement portions of security policies and are implemented via security mechanisms. ( Web Services Glossary - W3C Working Group Note 11 February 2004, http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-ws-gloss-20040211)