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Fail Soft

nounid 2551·updated May 9, 2026
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Selective termination of affected nonessential processing when hardware or software failure is determined to be imminent.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Control92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Fail Softs
possessive
Fail Soft's
pluralpossessive
Fail Softs'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
Selective termination of affected nonessential processing when hardware or software failure is determined to be imminent.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Selective termination of affected nonessential processing when hardware or software failure is determined to be imminent.

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