Question

Any event that results in violating your security policy, or poses an imminent threat to your security policy is considered:

Answer 1

Exception is it's name

Answer 2

Any event that results in violating your security policy, or poses an imminent threat to your security policy is considered as an incident.

Security Threat is defined as a risk that which can potentially harm computer systems and organization.

The cause could be physical such as someone stealing a computer that contains vital data.