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system configuration

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The setting of various switches and jumpers for hardware and the defining of values of parameters for software.

MWEFFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017

Senses

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 2 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

Entity Type

Data0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
system configuration setting
plural
system configurations
possessive
system configuration's
pluralpossessive
system configurations'