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Benign Environment

nounid 1664·updated May 9, 2026
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A non-hostile location protected from external hostile elements by physical, personnel, and procedural security countermeasures.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Physical75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Benign Environments
possessive
Benign Environment's
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Benign Environments'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
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A non-hostile location protected from external hostile elements by physical, personnel, and procedural security countermeasures.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
A non-hostile location protected from external hostile elements by physical, personnel, and procedural security countermeasures.

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Incoming relationships

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