incident-type-vocab

Fraud (F)

Deceiving the organization for personal gain at the organization’s expense

Sabotage (S)

Deliberate actions to harm an organization’s physical or virtual infrastructure, including noncompliance with maintenance or IT procedures, contaminating clean spaces, physically damaging facilities, or deleting code to prevent regular operations

Espionage (E)

The covert or illicit practice of spying on a foreign government, organization, entity, or person to obtain confidential information for military, political, strategic, or financial advantage

Violence (V)

Includes the threat of violence as well as other threatening behaviors that create an intimidating, hostile, or abusive environment

Unintentional (U)

The insider unwittingly causes harm or substantially increases the probability of future serious harm to the organization through action or inaction without malicious intent