Compromise
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
Refers to a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information, including any resultant impairment of (1) processing integrity or availability of systems or (2) the integrity or availability of system inputs or outputs.
polysemousTSP Section 100
Senses
FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012
To bring into danger, suspicion, or disrepute.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Disclosure of information to unauthorized persons, or a violation of the security policy of a system in which unauthorized intentional or unintentional disclosure, modification, destruction, or loss of an object may have occurred.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 2 pending review
The unauthorized disclosure, modification, substitution, or use of sensitive data (including plaintext cryptographic keys and other CSPs).
Wordset Dictionary
a middle way between two extremes
Wordset Dictionary
an accommodation in which both sides make concessions
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
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Information Class
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Compromises
- possessive
- Compromise's
- pluralpossessive
- Compromises'