Vulnerability definition

Vulnerability means a weakness of an asset or mitigation that can be exploited by one or more threats.
Vulnerability means a weakness in the computational logic (for example, code) found in software and hardware components that, when exploited, results in a negative impact to confidentiality, integrity, or availability, and the term Vulnerabilities shall be construed accordingly.
Vulnerability means a weakness, susceptibility or flaw of an asset, system, process or control that can be exploited by a threat;

Examples of Vulnerability in a sentence

  • The purpose of the relationship between Nucleus and Customer is for Customer to purchase a subscription to Nucleus’s Vulnerability and Risk Management Platform, which contains software, content, and information for IT risk management, regulatory compliance, and vulnerability assessments.


More Definitions of Vulnerability

Vulnerability means a weakness of any nature that can be exploited by one or more threats. A vulnerability may be an omission or it may relate to a weakness in controls in terms of their strength, completeness or consistency and may be of a technical, procedural, physical, organisational or operational nature.
Vulnerability means a weakness in the computational logic (for example, code) found in software and hardware components that when exploited, results in a negative impact to the confidentiality, integrity, or availability, and the term Vulnerabilities shall be construed accordingly.
Vulnerability means the conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards.’’.
Vulnerability means the readily apparent susceptibility of a victim to injury, physical restraint, persuasion, or temptation.
Vulnerability means a set of conditions and processes rooted in conditions of physical, social, economic and environmental factors which increase the susceptibility of an individual or community to the impact of hazards; and
Vulnerability means a weakness of an asset or mitigation that can be exploited by one or more threats. Annex 1 List of threats and corresponding mitigations
Vulnerability means any weakness in the implemented measures and procedures which could be exploited to carry out an act of unlawful interference.