Answer-first digital-safety definitions
Make the ownership and recovery chain visible.
Six linked definitions turn broad security advice into business-controlled routines that an owner can name, practice, review, and improve.
Critical account ownership
Critical account ownership means the business can name the accountable owner, control its administrators, use business-controlled sign-in and recovery routes, remove obsolete access, and recover the account without depending on one employee, vendor, or personal address.
Open the field definition02 / FIELD TERMStrong authentication routine
A practical strong-authentication routine combines a unique credential, the strongest suitable multifactor method available, protected recovery routes, separate administrative access, and a repeatable process for enrollment, loss, replacement, and removal.
Open the field definition03 / FIELD TERMTrusted second channel
A trusted second channel is a separately established way to confirm a sensitive request with the right person, using a known phone number, approved account, or documented process instead of the message, link, caller, or contact details that delivered the request.
Open the field definition04 / FIELD TERMMaintained device baseline
A maintained device baseline is a current record of business devices, supported software, accountable owners, update expectations, protective settings, important data, and safe replacement or retirement steps.
Open the field definition05 / FIELD TERMRecovery evidence
Recovery evidence is a dated record that an approved person restored a named business record or configuration from a protected backup into a safe location, checked the result, measured the time, recorded gaps, and assigned the next correction.
Open the field definition06 / FIELD TERMFirst-hour incident plan
A first-hour incident plan names who leads, who must be contacted, which safe actions are preapproved, how evidence and continuity are protected, what must not be changed, and when to involve technology, legal, insurance, financial, privacy, communications, or public authorities.
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