oversecure

English

Etymology

over- +‎ secure

Adjective

oversecure (comparative more oversecure, superlative most oversecure)

1. Secure beyond necessity.

Verb

oversecure (third-person singular simple present oversecures, present participle oversecuring, simple past and past participle oversecured)

1. To secure beyond necessity.
   • 2010, Scott Jamison, Susan Hanley, Mauro Cardarelli, Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning:

     As discussed in Chapter 4, “Planning for Governance,” you need to carefully consider the implications of “oversecuring” content. If every site is locked down for Read access, it will be hard to achieve your knowledge management objectives.

   • 2013, Theodor Richardson, Charles N. Thies, Secure Software Design, page 85:

     After you have identified these [considerations], you should start asking why to make sure you are not oversecuring the information and wasting resources. Asking what, how, and why of the data you are sending will go a long way in planning the security of the information you send from one node of your system to another, […]