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protective measure

nounid 3708·updated May 9, 2026
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Any precautionary action, procedure or installation conceived or undertaken to guard or defend from harm persons, property or the environment.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems3 citations · 3 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.04.12.b ¶ 13.2.2 ¶ 1453.2.2 ¶ 145

Classifications

Entity Type

Control95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
protective measures
possessive
protective measure's
pluralpossessive
protective measures'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§1
Any precautionary action, procedure or installation conceived or undertaken to guard or defend from harm persons, property or the environment.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_pack_match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 2 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Any precautionary action, procedure or installation conceived or undertaken to guard or defend from harm persons, property or the environment.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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