home/glossary/Failure

Failure

nounid 2553·updated May 9, 2026
candidate

The condition or action of not functioning.

Classifications

Entity Type

Event75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Failures
possessive
Failure's
pluralpossessive
Failures'

Framework definitions

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
§1
The inability of a system or component to perform its required functions within specified performance requirements.
NERC CIP-007-6 (System Security Management) v61 senseview framework →
§1
The condition or action of not functioning.

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.