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Boundary Protection

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Monitoring and control of communications at the external boundary of an information system to prevent and detect malicious and other unauthorized communication, through the use of boundary protection devices (e.g., proxies, gateways, routers, firewalls, guards, encrypted tunnels).

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 3 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Boundary Protections
possessive: Boundary Protection's
pluralpossessive: Boundary Protections'

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