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Homing beacons

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Devices that send messages to the institution when they connect to a network and that enable recovery of the device.

MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Classifications

Entity Type

Asset100%manual reviewI-071.physical_split
Ddorianclast reviewed —
Physical became Facility; its devices went to Asset (Dorian, 2026-10-06; cki DESIGN.md I-071)

Sensitivity

Regulated75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed —

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

possessive
Homing beacons's
pluralpossessive
Homing beaconses'