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Security Test & Evaluation

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Examination and analysis of the safeguards required to protect an information system, as they have been applied in an operational environment, to determine the security posture of that system.

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Entity Type

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

Information Class

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Variants

acronym
ST&E
plural
Security Test & Evaluations
possessive
Security Test & Evaluation's
pluralpossessive
Security Test & Evaluations'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
Examination and analysis of the safeguards required to protect an information system, as they have been applied in an operational environment, to determine the security posture of that system.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Examination and analysis of the safeguards required to protect an information system, as they have been applied in an operational environment, to determine the security posture of that system.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Examination and analysis of the safeguards required to protect an information system, as they have been applied in an operational environment, to determine the security posture of that system.
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