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information security threat

nounid 2891·updated Aug 30, 2026
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Any circumstance or event with the potential to adversely impact the measures taken so that information and information systems are protected from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.

MWE

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

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

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
information security threats
possessive
information security threat's
pluralpossessive
information security threats'

Framework definitions

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
§1
Any circumstance or event with the potential to adversely impact the measures taken so that information and information systems are protected from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
Any circumstance or event with the potential to adversely impact the measures taken so that information and information systems are protected from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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