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incident detection

nounverified·updated May 9, 2026

The process of identifying that an intrusion has been attempted, is occurring, or has occurred.

MWEFFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017

Classifications

Entity Type

Process92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

Internal65%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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incident detections
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incident detection's
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