SBU

See also: sbu

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

SBU (not comparable)

1. Initialism of sensitive but unclassified.
   • 2005, HR 285, Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2005, Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page IV-7:

     People entrusted with SBU information must safeguard it and employ the most stringent access control available.

   • 2008, Patrice McDermott, Who Needs to Know? - The State of Public Access to Federal Government Information, Bernan Press,, →ISBN, page 124:

     At the outset, let me say that at least some uses of control markings (such as SBU) for nonclassified information are intended to address real concerns about the release of information in relation to the need to protect privacy and security.

   • 2011, John K. Needham, Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information, DIANE Publishing,, →ISBN, page 35:

     Since 2008, in response to a presidential memorandum that replaced SBU information with "controlled unclassified information (CUI) as the single categorical designation for SBU infoemation, the executive branch is attempting to overhaul its CUI framework.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ukrainian СБУ (SBU), initialism of Слу́жба безпе́ки Украї́ни (Slúžba bezpéky Ukrajíny, literally “Security Service of Ukraine”).

Proper noun

SBU

1. The Security Service of Ukraine, the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian government.
   • 2022 November 22, Lorenzo Tondo, “Ukraine’s security service raids Russian-backed monastery in Kyiv”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Ukraine’s SBU security service and police have raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv as part of operations to counter suspected “subversive activities by Russian special services”. […] The SBU did not give details about the outcome of Tuesday’s raid.

Anagrams

• Bus., UBS, USB, bus, bus., sub, sub-, sub.