information security program

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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A documented approach for organizing and directing all activities undertaken to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information held by the organization.

MWEFFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 2017

Senses

2 more senses beyond the canonical

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

The overall combination of technical, operational and procedural measures and management structures implemented to provide for the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information based on business requirements and risk analysis

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

Process85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

Internal72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: information systems security program
plural: information security programs
possessive: information security program's
pluralpossessive: information security programs'

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