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SBU1
- abbreviationinitialismnot comparableInitialism of sensitive but unclassified.
People entrusted with SBU information must safeguard it and employ the most stringent access control available.
2005, HR 285, Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2005, Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page IV-72 more examples
At the outset, let me say that at least some uses of control markings (such as SBU) for nonclassified information are intended to address real concerns about the release of information in relation to the need to protect privacy and security.
2008, Patrice McDermott, Who Needs to Know? - The State of Public Access to Federal Government Information, Bernan Press,, →ISBN, page 124Since 2008, in response to a presidential memorandum that replaced SBU information with "controlled unclassified information (CUI) as the single categorical designation for SBU infoemation, the executive branch is attempting to overhaul its CUI framework.
2011, John K. Needham, Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information, DIANE Publishing,, →ISBN, page 35
SBU2
- The Security Service of Ukraine, the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian government.
Ukraine’s domestic intelligence service, the SBU, said one of the soldiers was captured on Thursday.
2025 January 11, Cassandra Vinograd, “Ukraine Says It Captured 2 North Korean Soldiers Fighting for Russia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN1 more example
Ukraine’s SBU security service and police have raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv as part of operations to counter suspected “subversive activities by Russian special services”. […] The SBU did not give details about the outcome of Tuesday’s raid.
2022 November 22, Lorenzo Tondo, “Ukraine’s security service raids Russian-backed monastery in Kyiv”, in The Guardian
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SBU. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SBU
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