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unauthorized change

nounverified· unreviewed·updated Oct 7, 2026

A purposeful and perhaps unlawful modification of financial data to hide wrong-doing, loss or other disclosure.

MWENERC CIP-010-2 (Config Change Management & Vulnerability) v2

Senses

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

Entity Type

Event100%manual reviewI-079.event_restored
Ddorianclast reviewed —
Event is a type again; Triggering Event is an Event that obliges a response (Dorian, 2026-10-07; cki DESIGN.md I-079)

Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed —

Information Class

—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
?unassignedlast reviewed —

Variants

synonym
unapproved change
plural
unauthorized changes
possessive
unauthorized change's
pluralpossessive
unauthorized changes'