situational awareness
nounid
4168·updated Aug 30, 2026verified· unreviewed
Within a volume of time and space, the perception of an enterprise’s security posture and its threat environment; the comprehension/meaning of both taken together (risk); and the projection of their status into the near future.
MWE
Attested in
NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems
03.03.05.c03.14.03.b ¶ 1
Classifications
Entity Type
Capability0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
—85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Variants
- alternatephrasing
- Situational Awareness
- plural
- situational awarenesses
- possessive
- situational awareness's
- pluralpossessive
- situational awarenesses'
Framework definitions
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1 · extended_definition_available
- Comprehending information about the current and developing security posture and risks, based on information gathered, observation and analysis, and knowledge or experience.
- §1
- The ability to identify, process and comprehend the critical elements of information through a cyber threat intelligence process that provides a level of understanding that is relevant to act upon to mitigate the impact of a potentially harmful event.
- §1
- Within a volume of time and space, the perception of an enterprise’s security posture and its threat environment; the comprehension/meaning of both taken together (risk); and the projection of their status into the near future.
- §1
- Within a volume of time and space, the perception of an enterprise’s security posture and its threat environment; the comprehension/meaning of both taken together (risk); and the projection of their status into the near future.
- §1
- Perception of elements in the system and/or environment and a comprehension of their meaning, which could include a projection of the future status of perceived elements and the uncertainty associated with that status.
- §1 · attested_usage_pack_match
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 2 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- Within a volume of time and space, the perception of an enterprise’s security posture and its threat environment; the comprehension/meaning of both taken together (risk); and the projection of their status into the near future.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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