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Compartmentalization

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A nonhierarchical grouping of sensitive information used to control access to data more finely than with hierarchical security classification alone.

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

Senses

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

A process for protecting very-high value assets or in environments where trust is an issue. Access to an asset requires two or more processes, controls or individuals.

Wordset Dictionary

the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

Wordset Dictionary

a mild state of dissociation

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
categorizationcompartmentalisation
plural
Compartmentalizations
possessive
Compartmentalization's
pluralpossessive
Compartmentalizations'