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response

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

An action taken that addresses an incident and assesses the level of containment and control activity required.

polysemousFFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012

Senses

SANS Glossary of Security Terms

A response is information sent that is responding to some stimulus.

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexiconextended definition available

The activities that address the short-term, direct effects of an incident and may also support short-term recovery.

Wordset Dictionary

a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent

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the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals

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a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister

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the manner in which something is greeted

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a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation

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the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange

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a result

Classifications

Entity Type

Process0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
answerreactionreceptionreply
alternatephrasing
Response
plural
responses
possessive
response's
pluralpossessive
responses'