cyber threat
nounverified· unreviewed·updated Aug 30, 2026
An internal or external circumstance, event, action, occurrence, or person with the potential to exploit technology-based vulnerabilities and to adversely impact (create adverse consequences for) organizational operations, organizational assets (including information and information systems), individuals, other organizations, or society.
MWEFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary
Senses
FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017
A potential cyber attack, which may be assigned a probability of occurrence that can be used for cyber risk assessment.
CPMI-IOSCO Guidance on Cyber Resilience for Financial Market Infrastructures
A circumstance or event with the potential to intentionally or unintentionally exploit one or more vulnerabilities in an FMI’s systems, resulting in a loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability.
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- cybersecurity threat
- plural
- cyber threats
- possessive
- cyber threat's
- pluralpossessive
- cyber threats'