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Glossary Computer Security / Term

contamination

The intermixing of data at different sensitivity and need-to-know levels. The lower level data is said to be contaminated by the higher level data; thus, the contaminating (higher level) data may not receive the required level of protection.

Permanent link contamination - Creation date 2020-06-27


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