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Threat Shifting

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

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

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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

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