cybersecurity event

nounverified·updated Oct 7, 2026

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Any act or attempt, successful or unsuccessful, to gain unauthorized access to, disrupt or misuse an Information System or information stored on such Information System.

MWENIST Cybersecurity Framework

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

Regulated92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: cyber event
plural: cybersecurity events
possessive: cybersecurity event's
pluralpossessive: cybersecurity events'

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