insider threat
nounid
163409·updated Aug 30, 2026verified
The threat that an insider will use their authorized access, wittingly or unwittingly, to do harm to the security of the United States. This threat can include damage to the United States through espionage, terrorism, unauthorized disclosure, or through the loss or degradation of departmental resources or capabilities.
MWE
Source
Proposed during multiword review of this document in the CKI mapping queue.
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.01.07.b ¶ 203.02.01.a.303.02.01.b ¶ 203.02.01.b ¶ 203.02.01.b ¶ 33.2.2 ¶ 83
Classifications
Entity Type
Threat95%rule-basedr:entity.threat.actor.v1
Sensitivity
Regulated85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
Cui70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
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Framework definitions
- §1 · glossary
- The threat that an insider will use their authorized access, wittingly or unwittingly, to do harm to the security of the United States. This threat can include damage to the United States through espionage, terrorism, unauthorized disclosure, or through the loss or degradation of departmental resources or capabilities.Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
- §1 · glossary
- The threat that an insider will use her/his authorized access, wittingly or unwittingly, to do harm to the security of the United States. This threat can include damage to the United States through espionage, terrorism, unauthorized disclosure, or through the loss or degradation of departmental resources or capabilities.Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
- §1 · legacy_primary
- The threat that an insider will use their authorized access, wittingly or unwittingly, to do harm to the security of the United States. This threat can include damage to the United States through espionage, terrorism, unauthorized disclosure, or through the loss or degradation of departmental resources or capabilities.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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