home/glossary/Packet Sniffer

Packet Sniffer

nounid 3495·updated May 9, 2026
verified

Software that observes and records network traffic.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems1 citation · 1 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.07.04.c ¶ 1

Classifications

Entity Type

Capability75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Packet Sniffers
possessive
Packet Sniffer's
pluralpossessive
Packet Sniffers'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
Software that observes and records network traffic.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Software that observes and records network traffic.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_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.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Software that observes and records network traffic.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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.