Sufficient technical security measures, operational controls, and legal protections deployed to reduce operational risk to an acceptable level.

A vague legalistic catch-all phrase dropped in compliance proposals to promise protection without legally binding the company to specific security guarantees.

• Vague Liability Shield: Using subjective terms ("adequate") to avoid promising concrete, measurable security standards.
• Minimal Effort Mask: Signaling that a company is doing just enough security work to pass an audit and avoid fines.
• Kitchen Reality Check: Like tying a rubber band around a broken cupboard door and calling it "adequate safeguards."

Jurassic Park (1990s) scene where John Hammond repeatedly assures investors that the park has adequate safeguards, right before a single storm and disgruntled employee collapse the entire perimeter.

Sufficient security measures and rules put in place to meet basic compliance needs.

“Our platform maintains adequate safeguards to ensure client data privacy during cloud transfers.”

“We set up basic password encryption and multi-factor authentication to meet standard security compliance rules.”