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Protected Distribution System

nounid 3703·updated May 9, 2026
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Wire line or fiber optic system that includes adequate safeguards and/or countermeasures (e.g., acoustic, electric, electromagnetic, and physical) to permit its use for the transmission of unencrypted information through an area of lesser classification or control.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Network92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Cui78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

acronym
PDS
plural
Protected Distribution Systems
possessive
Protected Distribution System's
pluralpossessive
Protected Distribution Systems'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
Wire line or fiber optic system that includes adequate safeguards and/or countermeasures (e.g., acoustic, electric, electromagnetic, and physical) to permit its use for the transmission of unencrypted information through an area of lesser classification or control.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Wire line or fiber optic system that includes adequate safeguards and/or countermeasures (e.g., acoustic, electric, electromagnetic, and physical) to permit its use for the transmission of unencrypted information through an area of lesser classification or control.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Wire line or fiber optic system that includes adequate safeguards and/or countermeasures (e.g., acoustic, electric, electromagnetic, and physical) to permit its use for the transmission of unencrypted information through an area of lesser classification or control.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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