oversecure

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adjective

Secure beyond necessity.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveoversecure (comparative more oversecure, superlative most oversecure)

comparative more oversecure · superlative most oversecure

  1. Secure beyond necessity.
verboversecure (third-person singular simple present oversecures, present participle oversecuring, simple past and past participle oversecured)

present singular third person oversecures · participle present oversecuring · participle past oversecured · past oversecured

  1. To secure beyond necessity.

    As discussed in Chapter 4, “Planning for Governance,” you need to carefully consider the implications of “oversecuring” content. If every site is locked down for Read access, it will be hard to achieve your knowledge management objectives.

    2010, Scott Jamison, Susan Hanley, Mauro Cardarelli, Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning
    1 more example

    After you have identified these [considerations], you should start asking why to make sure you are not oversecuring the information and wasting resources. Asking what, how, and why of the data you are sending will go a long way in planning the security of the information you send from one node of your system to another, […]

    2013, Theodor Richardson, Charles N. Thies, Secure Software Design, page 85

Origin

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