What is Vulnerability

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Vulnerability is a weakness in an information system, system security procedures, internal controls, or implementation that could be exploited or triggered by a threat source. Learn more in: A Comprehensive Perspective on Mobile Forensics: Process, Tools, and Future Trends

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Vulnerability is the degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes. Vulnerability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate change and variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptive capacity. Learn more in: Climate Change Impact on the Water Resources of the Limpopo Basin: Simulations of a Coupled GCM and Hybrid Atmospheric-Terrestrial Water Balance (HATWAB) Model

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The quality of being easily hurt or attacked. Learn more in: Global Wannacrypt Ransomware Attack: Tackling the Threat of Virtual Marauders

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The ability to set aside one’s preconceptions and deep-seated beliefs, to rethink processes, procedures, ways of viewing the world, and other aspects of the ways that a person preconceives living in the world and being of the world. Learn more in: Considering Instructors' Philosophical Belief Systems and Potential Impact Upon eLearning Engagement: Transformative Social Learning Environments

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A security weakness in a system that that could be exploited by an attacker to cause harm. Learn more in: Security of Cloud Computing

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The state of being e asily persuadable or liable to yield to the impacts of environmental changes. Learn more in: Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Inland Fisheries of Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Africa: Impacts of Climate Change on Inland Fisheries

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A characteristic or specific weakness that renders an organization or asset (such as information or an information system) open to exploitation by a given threat or susceptible to a given hazard. Learn more in: National Security Policy and Strategy and Cyber Security Risks

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A vulnerability is a weakness or flaw that exists in a system due to design, operation procedures or implementation fault. A vulnerability may result in cyber-attack to compromise a system. Result may be data theft, denial of service, or an attempt to access and modify files. Learn more in: A Machine Learning-Based Cyber Defence System for an Intelligent City

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Any weakness in a system (typically a computer system) that poses a risk of attack to the owner. Learn more in: Disruptive Technology Impacts on Security

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Refers to a flaw in the computer system, which creates a way open to the attack. Learn more in: Threats and Vulnerabilities of Mobile Applications

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Weaknesses of an infrastructure towards security and safety threats due to lack of measures, policies or strategy. Learn more in: Business Continuity of Critical Infrastructures for Safety and Security Incidents

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It is defined as a defect, imperfection, weakness, or inadequacy of a system. Learn more in: Classification of Spamming Attacks to Blogging Websites and Their Security Techniques

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The conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the impacts of hazards ( ISDR, 2009 ). Learn more in: Managing Risk in Global Food Supply Chains: Improving Food Security and Sustainability

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Weakness in an information system, system security procedures, internal controls, or implementation that could be exploited or triggered by a threat source. Learn more in: Requirements and Life Cycle Model-Based Assessment of NPP I&C Systems Cyber Security and Safety

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A weakness to an asset or system that can be exploited by a threat actor. Learn more in: The Challenge of Adequately Defining Technical Risk

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Potential for loss. Learn more in: Impact of Sea Level Rise on Coastal Regions and Strategic Responses

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It is the acceptance of the crisis (e.g., generational succession in FF), and it includes the attributes of people and organizations to suffer and subsequently transform small accidents into disasters. Learn more in: The Organizational Resilience in Family Firms Studies: Role and Impact in Generational Succession

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Refers to the inability to resist the effects of a hostile environment. Learn more in: Vulnerability of Oasis Agriculture to Climate Change in Morocco

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The condition of susceptibility to harm resulting from developmental problems, personal incapacities, disadvantaged social status, inadequacy of interpersonal networks and supports, degraded environments, and the interactions of these factors over the life course. Learn more in: The Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Social Service-Providing Organizations in the Migration Sector in Turkey and the Digital Measures

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It is the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. Learn more in: Victimization, Cultural Imperatives, and Empowerment of People of Color in the United States

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Security weakness in software. Learn more in: A Taxonomy of Browser Attacks

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This term describes the cognitive understanding of the instructional process, wherein the student engages in differentiated understanding and efforts associated with the subject matter being learned. The student’s comfortableness with the information, the student’s comfortableness and engagement within the instructional environment (including the level of trust that the student feels towards the teacher and the other students) can further enhance each student’s ability to openly articulate creative thoughts and ideas, feeling a sense of safety that the student will not be derided for potentially incorrect understandings or “thinking outside the box” creativity that may be unusual understandings and ideas implemented with the subject matter under study. Learn more in: Implicit Cognitive Vulnerability

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is a broad multidimensional concept that can refer to the person, the family or the population group in which the vulnerability arises. In the context of vulnerability caused by unemployment, constant change and economic uncertainty, etc. The job training proposals for young people are very important. Learn more in: Students in Socially Vulnerable Contexts: Discovering Their Entrepreneurial Potential

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Vulnerability is a flaw or weakness in system security procedures, internal controls, or implementation that could be exercised (accidentally triggered or intentionally exploited) and result in loss or harm. Learn more in: Information Systems Risk Management: An Audit and Control Approach

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A measured weakness or aspect of a system that can be exploited and cause significant harm. Learn more in: Risk Engine Design as a Key Security Enhancement to the Standard Architecture for Cognitive Radio

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Propensity of poor health and/or lack of access to health care services. Learn more in: Analytics: Unpacking AIDS Policy in the Black Community

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A vulnerability is a weakness in a network computer system’s security procedures, administrative controls, system design, implementation, internal controls, or so forth that could be exploited by a threat for one to gain unauthorized access to information, to disrupt critical processing, or to violate a system security policy. It is a flaw that may allow harm to occur to an information technology activity. A measurement of vulnerability, which includes the susceptibility of a particular system to a specific attack and the opportunities available to a threat agent to mount that attack, is known as vulnerability assessment. Learn more in: Implementing a Sound Public Information Security Program

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Is a weakness in the organization, network that can be exploited by a threat. Learn more in: Designing an Effective Information Security Policy for Public Organizations: ISO 27001 as a Success Framework

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Is a defect or weakness in information system’s assets or mechanisms, which could lead to a security breach when exploited by malicious entities. Learn more in: Cost Estimation and Security Investment of Security Projects

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A vulnerability is any weakness in a product, process or system which could potentially be exploited to reduce the security or function of that product, process, or system. Learn more in: How Can a Cybersecurity Student Become a Cybersecurity Professional and Succeed in a Cybersecurity Career?

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A weakness or flaw in an organization’s system that might be exploited to compromise security. Learn more in: Information Security and Risk Management

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A weakness or bug in software programs that could lead to a security compromise if exploited. Learn more in: Network Worms

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Weakness of an asset or control that can be exploited by one or more threats. The existence of a weakness, design, or implementation error that can lead to an unexpected, undesirable event compromising the security of the computer system, network, application, or protocol involved. Learn more in: Cyber-Physical Security in Healthcare

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Allowing others to view one’s fragileness and disruptive dissonance, especially throughout the learning process within this discussion. Learn more in: Creativity and Impactful Learning Through Implicit Cognitive Vulnerability

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Taking risks with no guarantee of success, emotional exposure. Learn more in: The Grand Connection: Leadership Is Connecting With Others Through a Greater Purpose

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A defect or weakness in information system’s assets or mechanisms, which could lead to a security breach when exploited by malicious entities. Learn more in: Management and Cost Estimation of Security Projects

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A weakness in a network computer system security procedures, administrative controls, system design, implementation, internal controls, etc. that could be exploited by a threat to gain an unauthorized access to information, disrupt critical processing, or violate a system security policy. Learn more in: E-Planning: Information Security Risks and Management Implications

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Situation that puts firm survival at risk, such as low performance, low levels of slack resources, and public pressure. Learn more in: Preference Reversal Under Vulnerability: An Application of Neural Networks in Mexican Family Firms

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Vulnerability, in this context, may be defined as the diminished capacity of an individual or group to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a natural or man-made hazard. The concept is relative and dynamic. Vulnerability is most often associated with poverty, but it can also arise when people are isolated, insecure and defenceless in the face of risk, shock or stress. People differ in their exposure to risk as a result of their social group, gender, ethnic or other identity, age and other factors. Learn more in: Adaptation to Climate Change for Sustainable Development: A Survey

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A weakness in software that can be exploited by a threat to cause harm to the process the software is designed to perform. Learn more in: Threat Modeling and Secure Software Engineering Process

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Vulnerability is a security flaw in operating systems or applications that could be exploited to attack the host. Learn more in: Malicious Software in Mobile Devices

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This refers to the lack of capacity by a person, a group of persons, or a community to fend for itself. The inability to meet basic human needs. Learn more in: Parental/Guardian Subsidization of Extra Tuition and the Marginalization of the Poor in Zimbabwe: Social Exclusion in Education Sector in Zimbabwe

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This is an inherent weakness associated with an enterprise asset. It is a condition that has the potential to allow a threat to occur with greater impact and greater frequency or both. Learn more in: Enterprise Information System Security: A Life-Cycle Approach

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Vulnerability describes a certain inability of a system to withstand the effects of an attack in a hostile environment. Learn more in: Vulnerabilities of Secure and Reliable Low-Power Embedded Systems and Their Analysis Methods: A Comprehensive Study

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Weakness of an asset or control that can be exploited by a threat. Learn more in: Cyber Security Assessment of NPP I&C Systems

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is a flaw or weakness that may allow harm to occur to an IT system or activity. Learn more in: Information Security Policies: Precepts and Practices

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A security weakness in operating system or application software. Learn more in: Malicious Software

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The source of many moral intuitions and responsibilities is the recognition that there are vulnerable individuals or groups who are susceptible to being harmed, i.e. who are less protected against a certain disposition or a status facing outer and inner impairment. This also refers to a failure of a selfregulating mechanism of the organism. Questions of informed consent require special attention in vulnerable populations who are particularly susceptible to injury or harm. Learn more in: Ethical Conflicts Regarding Technical Assistance Systems for the Elderly

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Related to exposure, sensitivity, and resilience. Learn more in: Composite Indicators as Decision Support Method for Flood Analysis: Flood Vulnerability Index Category

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The condition of a facility or a transportation link that is susceptible to disruption. Learn more in: Assessment of Disruption Risks in Supply Chains

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The degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes. Learn more in: Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals Through Environmental Education

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Weakness leading to a threat. Learn more in: A Hybrid Asset-Based IT Risk Management Framework

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A weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's information assurance. Learn more in: Secure Architecture for Cloud Environment

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It is defined as a flaw, fault, or insufficiency of a system. Learn more in: Taxonomy of Login Attacks in Web Applications and Their Security Techniques Using Behavioral Biometrics

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Refers to a known weakness of an asset that can be exploited by one or more attackers. Vulnerability can concern computers system, devices, networks or can also be at organizational level. Learn more in: Crime and Victimization in Cyberspace: A Socio-Criminological Approach to Cybercrime

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A weakness in the organization, network that can be exploited by a threat. Learn more in: Information Security Policy in Large Public Organizations: A Case Study Through ISO 27002

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Vulnerability is “the group of children that experience negative outcomes, such as the loss of their education, morbidity, and malnutrition, at higher rates than do their peers”.(4) The main categories of vulnerable children outlined in this toolkit are Street children, Children in the worst forms of child labor, Children affected by armed conflict, Children affected by HIV/AIDS, Children living with disabilities. Learn more in: Representation of Syrian Children in Turkish Media From a Child-Oriented Rights Journalism Perspective

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Vulnerability describes a certain inability of a system to withstand the effects of an attack in a hostile environment. Learn more in: Industrial Applications of Emulation Techniques for the Early Evaluation of Secure Low-Power Embedded Systems