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Reverse Engineering

nounid 3898·updated Aug 30, 2026
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Acquiring sensitive data by disassembling and analyzing the design of a system component.

MWE

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Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

Restricted72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

Ip78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
Reverse Engineerings
possessive
Reverse Engineering's
pluralpossessive
Reverse Engineerings'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
§1
Acquiring sensitive data by disassembling and analyzing the design of a system component.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Acquiring sensitive data by disassembling and analyzing the design of a system component.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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