Controlled Area

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

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Any area or space for which the organization has confidence that the physical and procedural protections provided are sufficient to meet the requirements established for protecting the information or system.

MWENIST SP 800-171r3

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

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

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Physical92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

Restricted85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Controlled Areas
possessive: Controlled Area's
pluralpossessive: Controlled Areas'

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