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incident response process

nounid 2823·updated May 9, 2026
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An established or official method for implementing the policy for incident response or performing the tasks, processes, or operations to address and manage the aftermath of a disaster or other significant event that may affect the organization’s people or ability to function productively which must be executed in the same manner in order to obtain the same results in the same circumstances.

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
03.06.03 ¶ 2

Classifications

Entity Type

Process95%rule-basedr:entity.process.workflow.v1

Sensitivity

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
response and support recovery activity
plural
incident response processes
possessive
incident response process's
pluralpossessive
incident response processes'

Framework definitions

NIST Cybersecurity Framework1 senseview framework →
§1
An established or official method for implementing the policy for incident response or performing the tasks, processes, or operations to address and manage the aftermath of a disaster or other significant event that may affect the organization’s people or ability to function productively which must be executed in the same manner in order to obtain the same results in the same circumstances.
FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
§1
An established or official method for implementing the policy for incident response or performing the tasks, processes, or operations to address and manage the aftermath of a disaster or other significant event that may affect the organization’s people or ability to function productively which must be executed in the same manner in order to obtain the same results in the same circumstances.
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
An established or official method for implementing the policy for incident response or performing the tasks, processes, or operations to address and manage the aftermath of a disaster or other significant event that may affect the organization’s people or ability to function productively which must be executed in the same manner in order to obtain the same results in the same circumstances.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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