Misdirection
nounverified·updated Aug 30, 2026
The process of maintaining and employing deception resources or environments and directing adversary activities to those resources or environments.
polysemousNIST SP 800-172r3
Senses
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the act of distracting
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management that is careless or inefficient
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incorrect directions or instructions
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an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- distractionmismanagement
- plural
- Misdirections
- possessive
- Misdirection's
- pluralpossessive
- Misdirections'