Threat Shifting

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Response from adversaries to perceived safeguards and/or countermeasures (i.e., security controls), in which the adversaries change some characteristic of their intent to do harm in order to avoid and/or overcome those safeguards/countermeasures.

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Classifications

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Entity Type

Threat92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Threat Shiftings
possessive: Threat Shifting's
pluralpossessive: Threat Shiftings'

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