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Access Point

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A device that logically connects wireless client devices operating in infrastructure to one another and provides access to a distribution system, if connected, which is typically an organization’s enterprise wired network.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 2 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Access Points
possessive: Access Point's
pluralpossessive: Access Points'

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