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CoT

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-000978

1. A method for maintaining valid trust boundaries by applying a principle of transitive trust, where each software module in a system boot process is required to measure the next module before transitioning control.

2. See “authentication chain.”

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-000978
FieldCybersecurity
ExpansionsChain of Trust
ReferencesNISTIR 8320; NIST SP 800-81-2 [Superseded]; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-000978",
  "term": "CoT",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "1. A method for maintaining valid trust boundaries by applying a principle of transitive trust, where each software module in a system boot process is required to measure the next module before transitioning control.\n\n2. See “authentication chain.”",
  "expansions": [
    "Chain of Trust"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NISTIR 8320",
    "NIST SP 800-81-2 [Superseded]",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/cot/"
}

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