alert
verbcandidate·updated Jun 3, 2026
Notification that a specific attack has been directed at an organization’s information systems.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon
A notification that a specific attack has been detected or directed at an organization’s information systems.
FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017
To warn or give notice of potential danger, threats, or issues.
NERC CIP-006-6 (Physical Security of BES Cyber Systems) v6
A warning that something has changed, a threshold has been reached, or a failure has occurred.
Wordset Dictionary
to warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Variants
- synonym
- alarm
- pasttense
- alerted
- presentparticiple
- alerting
- thirdpersonsingular
- alerts
- pastparticiple
- alerted