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information security event

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Identified occurrence of a system, service or network state indicating a possible breach of information security policy or failure of controls, or a previously unknown situation that may be security relevant.

MWEFFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Event100%manual reviewI-079.event_restored

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Event is a type again; Triggering Event is an Event that obliges a response (Dorian, 2026-10-07; cki DESIGN.md I-079)

Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: information security events
possessive: information security event's
pluralpossessive: information security events'

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