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
- pluralpossessive
- Entrapments'