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Entrapment

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

Deliberate planting of apparent flaws in an IS for the purpose of detecting attempted penetrations.

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

Senses

Wordset Dictionary

a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

Classifications

Entity Type

Control0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Entrapments
possessive
Entrapment's
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Entrapments'