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Information Flow Control

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Procedure to ensure that information transfers within a system are not made in violation of the security policy.

MWENIST SP 800-172r3

Senses

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

Procedure to ensure that information transfers within an information system are not made in violation of the security policy.

NIST SP 800-171r3glossary

Procedure to ensure that information transfers within a system do not violate the security policy.

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

Cui75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

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Information Flow Controls
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Information Flow Control's
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Information Flow Controls'