Security violation

nounverified·updated Oct 7, 2026

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An instance in which a user or other person circumvents or defeats the controls of a system to obtain unauthorized access to information or system resources.

MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

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

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Event100%manual reviewI-079.event_restored

Ddorianclast reviewed —

Event is a type again; Triggering Event is an Event that obliges a response (Dorian, 2026-10-07; cki DESIGN.md I-079)

Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Security violations
possessive: Security violation's
pluralpossessive: Security violations'

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