home/glossary/critical function

critical function

nounid 2062·updated May 9, 2026
verified

Business activities or information that could not be interrupted or unavailable for several business days without significantly jeopardizing operation of the organization.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems1 citation · 1 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
3.2.2 ¶ 145

Classifications

Entity Type

Capability75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

Restricted72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
critical functions
possessive
critical function's
pluralpossessive
critical functions'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§1
Business activities or information that could not be interrupted or unavailable for several business days without significantly jeopardizing operation of the organization.
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§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.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Business activities or information that could not be interrupted or unavailable for several business days without significantly jeopardizing operation of the organization.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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.