denial of service

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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The prevention of authorized access to resources or the delaying of time-critical operations. (Time-critical may be milliseconds or it may be hours, depending upon the service provided.)

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Entity Type

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unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

5 surface forms

acronym: DoS
alternatephrasing: Denial-Of-Service
plural: denial of services
possessive: denial of service's
pluralpossessive: denial of services'

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