guard (system)

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Definitions:

A computer system that (a) acts as gateway between two information systems operating under different security policies and (b) is trusted to mediate information data transfers between the two. See transfer cross domain solution.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015 from IETF RFC 4949 Ver 2

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