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information security incident

nounid 2882·updated May 9, 2026
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A single or a series of unwanted or unexpected information security events that have a significant probability of compromising business operations and threatening information security.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Event95%rule-basedr:entity.event.incident.v1

Sensitivity

Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
information security incidents
possessive
information security incident's
pluralpossessive
information security incidents'

Framework definitions

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
§1
A single or a series of unwanted or unexpected information security events that have a significant probability of compromising business operations and threatening information security.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A single or a series of unwanted or unexpected information security events that have a significant probability of compromising business operations and threatening information security.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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