Penetration
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
Gaining unauthorized logical access to sensitive data by circumventing a system's protections.
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Senses
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the act of entering into or through something
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the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
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an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
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the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
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the ability to make way into or through something
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clear or deep perception of a situation
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat0%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
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- incursioninsight
- plural
- Penetrations
- possessive
- Penetration's
- pluralpossessive
- Penetrations'