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Abbreviation(s) and Synonym(s):

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Definition(s):

A facility is unattended when there is no human presence. Use of roaming guards and/or an intrusion detection system is not enough to consider a facility attended. Having a trusted individual sitting at the entrance to a vault does make the vault attended.
Source(s):
CNSSI 4009-2015 CNSSI 4005

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