situational awareness

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-003971",
  "term": "situational awareness",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "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.\n\n2. 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.",
  "abbreviation": "SA",
  "references": [
    "CNSSI 4009-2022",
    "NIST SP 800-160v1r1 from ISO 17757:2019",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/situational-awareness/"
}