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What is a “vulnerability”?

April 26, 2017vulnerability

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What is a “vulnerability”?

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A lot of people have tried to define the word ‘vulnerability’ and how it relates to the security industry. The best definition though is how it relates to world at large.

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An information security vulnerability is a mistake in software that can be directly used by a hacker to gain access to a system or network. See the Terminology page for a complete explanation of how this term is used on the CVE Web site.