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Definitions[]

General[]

A capability provides the means to accomplish a mission or function resulting from the performance of one or more critical tasks, under specified conditions, to target levels of performance. A capability may be delivered with any combination of properly planned, organized, equipped, trained, and exercised personnel that achieves the desired outcome.

"[A] capability is the quality of being able to perform a given activity."[1]

Security[]

Capability is

the ability of a suitably organized, trained, and equipped entity to access, penetrate, or alter government or privately owned information or communications systems and/or to disrupt, deny, or destroy all or part of a critical infrastructure.[2]
[a] logically discrete grouping of people, processes, and enabling technologies that produces a discrete output: physical assets, information, relationships, transactions, or knowledge.[3]
[a] protected identifier that both identifies the object and specifies

the access rights to be allowed to the accessor who possesses the capability. In a capability-based system, access to protected objects such as files is granted if the would-be accessor possesses a capability for the object.[4]

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