cyber threat
nounid
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An internal or external circumstance, event, action, occurrence, or person with the potential to exploit technology-based vulnerabilities and to adversely impact (create adverse consequences for) organizational operations, organizational assets (including information and information systems), individuals, other organizations, or society.
MWE
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- synonym
- cybersecurity threat
- plural
- cyber threats
- possessive
- cyber threat's
- pluralpossessive
- cyber threats'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A potential cyber attack, which may be assigned a probability of occurrence that can be used for cyber risk assessment.
- §1
- A potential cyber attack, which may be assigned a probability of occurrence that can be used for cyber risk assessment.
- §1
- A potential cyber attack, which may be assigned a probability of occurrence that can be used for cyber risk assessment.
- §1
- A circumstance or event with the potential to intentionally or unintentionally exploit one or more vulnerabilities in an FMI’s systems, resulting in a loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability.
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary1 senseview framework →
- §1
- An internal or external circumstance, event, action, occurrence, or person with the potential to exploit technology-based vulnerabilities and to adversely impact (create adverse consequences for) organizational operations, organizational assets (including information and information systems), individuals, other organizations, or society.
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