Impact
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
With respect to security, the effect on organizational operations, organizational assets, individuals, other organizations, or the Nation (including the national security interests of the United States) of a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information or a system. With respect to privacy, the adverse effects that individuals could experience when an information system processes their PII.
Framework senses
- §1
- Magnitude of loss resulting from a threat exploiting a vulnerability
- §1
- A measure of the effect of an incident, problem, or change on business processes; often based on how service levels will be affected; used with urgency to assign priority.
- §1
- To come into contact with another object forcibly.
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- In Information Security: the magnitude of harm that can be expected to result from unauthorized disclosure, modification, or destruction of information, loss of information or loss of information system availability.
- §1
- To come into contact with another object forcibly.
- §1
- To come into contact with another object forcibly.
- §1
- The magnitude of harm that can be expected to result from the consequences of unauthorized disclosure of information, unauthorized modification of information, unauthorized destruction of information, or loss of information or information system availability.
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- The magnitude of harm that can be expected to result from the consequences of unauthorized disclosure of information, unauthorized modification of information, unauthorized destruction of information, or loss of information or information system availability.
- §1
- influencing strongly
- §2
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- §3
- the striking of one body against another
- §4
- a forceful consequence
- §1 · glossary
- With respect to security, the effect on organizational operations, organizational assets, individuals, other organizations, or the Nation (including the national security interests of the United States) of a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information or a system. With respect to privacy, the adverse effects that individuals could experience when an information system processes their PII.Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
- §1 · glossary
- With respect to security, the effect on organizational operations, organizational assets, individuals, other organizations, or the Nation (including the national security interests of the United States) of a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information or a system. With respect to privacy, the adverse effects that individuals could experience when an information system processes their PII.Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
- §1 · legacy_primary
- The magnitude of harm that can be expected to result from the consequences of unauthorized disclosure of information, unauthorized modification of information, unauthorized destruction of information, or loss of information or information system availability.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column