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exposure

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

The potential loss to an area due to the occurrence of an adverse event.

polysemousFederal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook Infobase, Glossary

Senses

SANS Glossary of Security Terms

A threat action whereby sensitive data is directly released to an unauthorized entity.

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon

The condition of being unprotected, thereby allowing access to information or access to capabilities that an attacker can use to enter a system or network.

SEC IM Guidance Update: Cybersecurity Guidance, No. 2015-02

The potential loss or compromise to an area caused by an adverse event.

Wordset Dictionary

the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

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abandoning without shelter or protection (as by leaving as infant out in the open)

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presentation to view in an open or public manner

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the act of exposing film to light

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a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide

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vulnerability to the elements

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aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces

Wordset Dictionary

the disclosure of something secret

Wordset Dictionary

the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate

Wordset Dictionary

the state of being vulnerable or exposed

Classifications

Entity Type

Vulnerability0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
photophotographpicpicturevulnerability
alternatephrasing
Exposure
plural
exposures
possessive
exposure's
pluralpossessive
exposures'