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Glossary

ENCompromise 
1. Disclosure of information to unauthorized persons, or a violation of the security policy of a system in which unauthorized intentional or unintentional disclosure, modification, destruction, or loss of an object may have occurred.

(Source: NIST SP 800-32)

2. The unauthorized disclosure, modification, substitution or use of sensitive data (including plaintext cryptographic keys and other critical security parameters).

(Source: FIPS 140-2)


TC/SC:57Terms     Info     Publications
Published in:IEC 62351-2, ed. 1.0 (2008-08) Terms     Info
Reference number:2.2.49
Source:NIST SP 800-32, FIPS 140-2

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