COMSEC Equipment

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Equipment designed to provide security to telecommunications by converting information to a form unintelligible to an unauthorized interceptor and, subsequently, by reconverting such information to its original form for authorized recipients; also, equipment designed specifically to aid in, or as an essential element of, the conversion process. COMSEC equipment includes crypto-equipment, crypto-ancillary equipment, cryptographic production equipment, and authentication equipment.

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

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Asset100%manual reviewI-071.physical_split

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Physical became Facility; its devices went to Asset (Dorian, 2026-10-06; cki DESIGN.md I-071)

Sensitivity

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

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Information Class

Cui78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

1 surface form

possessive: COMSEC Equipment's

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