Usually means: Multiple layers of security controls.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. defense in depth: Merriam-Webster
  2. defense in depth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Defense-in-depth, Defense in depth (computing), Defense in depth (nuclear engineering), Defense in depth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. defense in depth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  5. defense in depth: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Defense in depth: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. defense in depth: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Defense-in-depth: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Defense in depth)

noun:  Alternative form of defence in depth [(military) A strategy that seeks to delay rather than prevent the advance of an attacker, potentially yielding a limited amount of territory in order to stress the attacker's logistics and reduce their momentum.]

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