Operations Security
nounverified·updated May 9, 2026
Systematic and proven process by which potential adversaries can be denied information about capabilities and intentions by identifying, controlling, and protecting generally unclassified evidence of the planning and execution of sensitive activities. The process involves five steps: identification of critical information, analysis of threats, analysis of vulnerabilities, assessment of risks, and application of appropriate countermeasures.
MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
Cui78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- acronym
- OPSEC
- plural
- Operations Securities
- possessive
- Operations Security's
- pluralpossessive
- Operations Securities'