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security alert

nounid 4020·updated May 9, 2026
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Any form of notification or alert structure that something is amiss with the system's configuration, settings, etc.

MWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems3 citations · 3 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.14.0303.14.03.b03.14.03.b ¶ 1

Classifications

Entity Type

Event92%rule-basedr:entity.event.incident.v1

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
security notification
plural
security alerts
possessive
security alert's
pluralpossessive
security alerts'

Framework definitions

FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool, Baseline, May 20171 senseview framework →
§1
Any form of notification or alert structure that something is amiss with the system's configuration, settings, etc.
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 3 citations 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
Any form of notification or alert structure that something is amiss with the system's configuration, settings, etc.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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Incoming relationships

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