Impact
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.
Senses
Magnitude of loss resulting from a threat exploiting a vulnerability
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.
To come into contact with another object forcibly.
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.
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.
influencing strongly
the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
the striking of one body against another
a forceful consequence
Classifications
Entity Type
Sensitivity
Information Class
Variants
- synonym
- impingementshockwallop
- plural
- Impacts
- possessive
- Impact's
- pluralpossessive
- Impacts'