Penetration (telecommunications)

For other uses, see Penetration (disambiguation).

In telecommunication, the term penetration has the following meanings:

The passage through a partition or wall of an equipment or enclosure by a wire, cable, or other electrically conductive object.
The unauthorized act of bypassing the security mechanisms of a cryptographic system or AIS.
The passage of a radio frequency through a physical barrier, such as a partition, a wall, a building, or earth.

References

National Information Systems Security Glossary

This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C" (in support of MIL-STD-188).

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