critical function

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

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Business activities or information that could not be interrupted or unavailable for several business days without significantly jeopardizing operation of the organization.

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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

Capability75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

Restricted72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: critical functions
possessive: critical function's
pluralpossessive: critical functions'

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