Risk Score

Noun · Security & Infosec

Definitions

  1. A numeric value intended to summarize the seriousness of a risk based on one or more contributing factors such as impact, likelihood, exposure, and exploitability. Risk scores are useful for ranking large numbers of issues, but they can hide important nuances if treated as more precise than they really are.

    In plain English: A number used to represent how serious a risk is.

    Example: "The issue's risk score rose automatically when the asset moved from an internal subnet to a public endpoint behind the customer portal."

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