malevolent activity
163563·updated Aug 30, 2026No definition recorded.
Composition
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and reduces the risk of malevolent activity without collusion.the sentence this term was read in
generalized from a web lookup of the quoted expression at proposal time Verdict: compositional.
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A compositional phrase, not a term of art. "Malevolent activity without collusion" describes the class of insider harm — intentional misuse of access or privilege — that a *single* individual can carry out acting alone. It encodes the principle that no user should be given enough privileges to misuse a system on their own; separating duties means no one individual holds all the "keys to the kingdom," so that bad behaviour would require two or more insiders to team up. Across NIST SP 800-53 (AC-5) and SP 800-171 (3.1.4), the phrase appears exclusively as the stated *purpose* of separation of duties — the risk category that the control is designed to reduce — rather than as a standalone concept with its own definition or scope.
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