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Likelihood of Occurrence

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In Information Assurance risk analysis, a weighted factor based on a subjective analysis of the probability that a given threat is capable of exploiting a given vulnerability.

MWENISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

Senses

NIST SP 800-171r3attested usage pack match

No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.

Classifications

Entity Type

Metric0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Likelihood of Occurrences
possessive
Likelihood of Occurrence's
pluralpossessive
Likelihood of Occurrences'