Definitions
Computer security
An information owner is a person who has created an specific data and has all the rights to change it, publish it or do anything with it. This information is also protected from being used for any purpose withount the agreement og the owner.
FISMA
Under the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, an information owner is
| “ | an agency official with statutory or operational authority for specified information and responsibility for establishing the criteria for its creation, collection, processing, dissemination, or disposal, which responsibilities may extend to interconnected systems or groups of interconnected systems.[1] | ” |
General
An information owner is an
| “ | [o]fficial with statutory or operational authority for specified information and responsibility for establishing the controls for its generation, collection, processing, dissemination, and disposal.[2] | ” |
References
- ↑ 38 U.S.C. §5727(9).
- ↑ DoD Directive 8500.1, at 20.