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Portable Electronic Device

nounverified·updated Oct 6, 2026

Any nonstationary electronic apparatus with singular or multiple capabilities of recording, storing, and/or transmitting data, voice, video, or photo images. This includes but is not limited to laptops, personal digital assistants, pocket personal computers, palmtops, MP3 players, cellular telephones, thumb drives, video cameras, and pagers.

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

Classifications

Entity Type

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

Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

Cui70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

acronym
PED
plural
Portable Electronic Devices
possessive
Portable Electronic Device's
pluralpossessive
Portable Electronic Devices'