physical action
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is behavior- or policy-based and requires users to take physical action tothe sentence this term was read in
generalized from a web lookup of the quoted expression at proposal time Verdict: compositional.
- NIST Special Publication 800 NIST SP 800-171r3
- Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations
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A security control characteristic describing a deliberate, manual, in-the-world step that a user must personally perform — such as pressing a key to lock a screen, logging out, or physically securing a device — to satisfy a policy requirement. It distinguishes controls that depend on human bodily intervention from those that are automatically enforced by the system itself; a control classified this way cannot fire without the user consciously doing something in the physical world. In standards usage, the term signals an audit-relevant design choice: if the required step is not taken, the control fails because the system provides no automatic backstop, placing the compliance burden squarely on user behavior.
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Proposed during multiword review of this document in the CKI mapping queue.
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