Network Sniffing

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A passive technique that monitors network communication, decodes protocols, and examines headers and payloads for information of interest. It is both a review technique and a target identification and analysis technique.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Network Sniffings
possessive: Network Sniffing's
pluralpossessive: Network Sniffings'

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