Operations Security
nounid
3457·updated May 9, 2026verified
Systematic and proven process by which potential adversaries can be denied information about capabilities and intentions by identifying, controlling, and protecting generally unclassified evidence of the planning and execution of sensitive activities. The process involves five steps: identification of critical information, analysis of threats, analysis of vulnerabilities, assessment of risks, and application of appropriate countermeasures.
MWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.02.01.b ¶ 1
Classifications
Entity Type
Process92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Sensitivity
Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
Cui78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- acronym
- OPSEC
- plural
- Operations Securities
- possessive
- Operations Security's
- pluralpossessive
- Operations Securities'
Framework definitions
- §1
- Systematic and proven process by which potential adversaries can be denied information about capabilities and intentions by identifying, controlling, and protecting generally unclassified evidence of the planning and execution of sensitive activities. The process involves five steps: identification of critical information, analysis of threats, analysis of vulnerabilities, assessment of risks, and application of appropriate countermeasures.
- §1
- Systematic and proven process by which potential adversaries can be denied information about capabilities and intentions by identifying, controlling, and protecting generally unclassified evidence of the planning and execution of sensitive activities. The process involves five steps: identification of critical information, analysis of threats, analysis of vulnerabilities, assessment of risks, and application of appropriate countermeasures.
- §1 · attested_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.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- Systematic and proven process by which potential adversaries can be denied information about capabilities and intentions by identifying, controlling, and protecting generally unclassified evidence of the planning and execution of sensitive activities. The process involves five steps: identification of critical information, analysis of threats, analysis of vulnerabilities, assessment of risks, and application of appropriate countermeasures.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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