compartmentalization

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Cloud computing has yet to meet every imaginable security concern, yet the combination of free-floating centralization, compartmentalization, agility and sheer power suggest a number of possible ways in which governmental computing environments might be made significantly more secure.

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  1. the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
  2. a mild state of dissociation

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  • Joel had devised a unique methodof compartmentalization, and I was certain he did not see himself as a cold-blooded killer—just some poor slob who became a murderer by happenstance. —  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • That actively preparing to adopt a child made her more vulnerable to this particular case — lack of compartmentalization, if you will. —  Gone by Lisa Gardner
  • No, I carry no burden, except being in prison HA: You can compartmentalize better than anyone I've ever known TB: It's not a matter of well, it may have been a matter of compartmentalization, which is not the process by any means. —  TEDBUNDY
  • This technique is commonly referred to as compartmentalization or segmentation TIP: You can also use bridges or routers to perform this segmentation. —  Maximum Security -- Ch 12 -- Sniffers
  • February 19th, 2009 at 9: 55 pm its pretty pathetic when you have blithering idiots totally clueless about compartmentalization (i know the word is no where in his vocabulary and has too many letter in it for him to comprehend) will continue to be a total RETARDED little bitch. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
 

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