situational awareness
Within a volume of time and space, the perception of an enterprise’s security posture and its threat environment; the comprehension/meaning of both taken together (risk); and the projection of their status into the near future.
Senses
Comprehending information about the current and developing security posture and risks, based on information gathered, observation and analysis, and knowledge or experience.
The ability to identify, process and comprehend the critical elements of information through a cyber threat intelligence process that provides a level of understanding that is relevant to act upon to mitigate the impact of a potentially harmful event.
Perception of elements in the system and/or environment and a comprehension of their meaning, which could include a projection of the future status of perceived elements and the uncertainty associated with that status.
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 2 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Classifications
Entity Type
Sensitivity
Information Class
Variants
- alternatephrasing
- Situational Awareness
- plural
- situational awarenesses
- possessive
- situational awareness's
- pluralpossessive
- situational awarenesses'