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Risk acceptance

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If the risk is within the enterprise's risk tolerance or if the cost of otherwise mitigating the risk is higher than the potential loss, the enterprise can assume the risk and absorb any losses

MWEISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

Classifications

Entity Type

Control0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

—70%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

plural
Risk acceptances
possessive
Risk acceptance's
pluralpossessive
Risk acceptances'