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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

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Framework definitions

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
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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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