compromise vs strengthening

compromise

noun
  • A breach of a computer or network's rules such that an unauthorized disclosure or loss of sensitive information may have occurred, or the unauthorized disclosure or loss itself. 

  • The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions. 

  • A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender. 

verb
  • To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound. 

  • To breach (a security system). 

  • To find a way between extremes. 

  • To bind by mutual agreement. 

  • To cause impairment of. 

  • To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion. 

strengthening

noun
  • The process by which something is strengthened. 

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