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The security engineering term for IT functionality that— 1) controls all access, 2) cannot be bypassed, 3) is tamper-resistant, and 4) provides confidence that the other three items are true.

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

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

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

Concept of an abstract machine that enforces Target of Evaluation (TOE) access control policies.

Classifications

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Entity Type

Control95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

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