Incident Handling
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The mitigation of violations of security policies and recommended practices.
MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
SANS Glossary of Security Terms
Incident Handling is an action plan for dealing with intrusions, cyber-theft, denial of service, fire, floods, and other security-related events. It is comprised of a six step process: Preparation, Identification, Containment, Eradication, Recovery, and Lessons Learned.
NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 3 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Classifications
Entity Type
Process0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
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Information Class
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- plural
- Incident Handlings
- possessive
- Incident Handling's
- pluralpossessive
- Incident Handlings'