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What is Vulnerability
Vulnerability is a term used to describe the weakness or lack (of assets) in risk management. Vulnerability allows the application of threat.

Vulnerability is a term used to describe the weakness or lack (of assets) in risk management. Vulnerability allows the application of threat. In risk analysis, the vulnerability is a property of assets.

Vulnerability is characterizes mainly by two factors:

  • Sensitivity (susceptibility to causing a risk by threat)
  • Criticality (importance of the asset for an organization, an individual or a system)

Use of vulnerability in practice: Vulnerability together with threat is used to assess the risk. At a comparable level of threat, lower level of vulnerability results to lower level of risk and vice versa.

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  • Probability

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