Central Office of Record (COR)

Individual designated by proper authority to be responsible for the receipt, transfer, accounting, safeguarding, and destruction of COMSEC material assigned to a COMSEC account. Person designated by proper authority to be responsible for the receipt, transfer, accounting, safeguarding, and destruction of COMSec material assigned to a COMSec account.
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Administrative entity, identified by an account number, used to maintain accountability, custody, and control of COMSEC material. Administrative entity, identified by an account number, used to maintain accountability, custody, and control of COMSec material.
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(COMSEC) Measures and controls taken to deny unauthorized individuals information derived from telecommunications and to ensure the authenticity of such telecommunications. Communications security includes cryptosecurity, transmission security, emission security, and physical security of COMSEC material.
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<p>(1) A security principle stating that individuals must be able to be identified. With accountability, violations or attempted violations can be traced to individuals who can be held responsible for their actions. </p><p>(2) The ability to map a given activity or event back to the responsible party; the property that ensures that the actions of an entity can be traced to that entity. </p><p>(IS) Process of tracing information system activities to a responsible source. </p><p>(COMSEC) Principle that an individual is entrusted to safeguard and control equipment, keying material, and information and is answerable to proper authority for the loss or misuse of that equipment or information. </p><p>The process of holding someone responsible (accountable) for something. In this context, accountability is possible if a subject’s identity and actions can be tracked and verified.</p>
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A law that mandates that government agencies maintain only records that are necessary to conduct their business and destroy those records when they are no longer needed for a legitimate function of government. It provides a formal procedure for individuals to gain access to records the government maintains about them and to request that incorrect records be amended. The Privacy Act also restricts the way the federal government can deal with private information about individual citizens. The federal law that allows individuals to know what information about them is on file and how it is used by all government agencies and their contractors. The 1986 Electronic Communication Act is an extension of the Privacy Act.
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