home/glossary/air gap

air gap

verbid 550·updated May 11, 2026
candidate

To physically separate or isolate a system from other systems or networks (verb).

MWE

Classifications

Cognitive

authoritativetrigger_default_value

Responsibility

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value

Automation

Unclassifiedauthoritativetrigger_default_value

Variants

pasttense
aired gap
presentparticiple
airing gap
thirdpersonsingular
airs gap
pastparticiple
aired gap

Framework definitions

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
§1 · extended_definition_available
To physically separate or isolate a system from other systems or networks (verb).

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.