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destruction

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

The purpose of this task is to remove an asset from existence and to ensure media cannot be reused as originally intended and information is virtually impossible to recover or prohibitively expensive to recover.

polysemousFFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017

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the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

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an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something

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a final state

Classifications

Entity Type

Process85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
deathdevastationendwipeout
alternatephrasing
Destruction
plural
destructions
possessive
destruction's
pluralpossessive
destructions'