CUI categories

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Those types of information for which laws, regulations, or government-wide policies require or permit agencies to exercise safeguarding or dissemination controls and which the CUI Executive Agent has approved and listed in the CUI Registry. [5]

MWENIST SP 800-172r3

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 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Requirement85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

Regulated95%rule-basedr:sens.regulated.framework.v1

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Information Class

Cui95%rule-basedr:info.cui.named.v1

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Variants

surface forms

No variants recorded

This term has no surface-form variants in the lexicon yet.

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