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Mutual Suspicion

nounid 3316·updated May 9, 2026
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Condition in which two information systems need to rely upon each other to perform a service, yet neither trusts the other to properly protect shared data.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Mutual Suspicions
possessive
Mutual Suspicion's
pluralpossessive
Mutual Suspicions'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
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Condition in which two information systems need to rely upon each other to perform a service, yet neither trusts the other to properly protect shared data.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Condition in which two information systems need to rely upon each other to perform a service, yet neither trusts the other to properly protect shared data.

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.