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Misdirection

nounid 87598·updated Aug 30, 2026
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The process of maintaining and employing deception resources or environments and directing adversary activities to those resources or environments.

polysemous

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Entity Type

Control72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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unclassified

Variants

synonym
distractionmismanagement
plural
Misdirections
possessive
Misdirection's
pluralpossessive
Misdirections'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary4 sensesview framework →
§1
the act of distracting
§2
management that is careless or inefficient
§3
incorrect directions or instructions
§4
an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge
NIST SP 800-172r31 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
The process of maintaining and employing deception resources or environments and directing adversary activities to those resources or environments.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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