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Total Risk

nounid 4457·updated May 12, 2026
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The potential for the occurrence of an adverse event if no mitigating action is taken (i.e., the potential for any applicable threat to exploit a system vulnerability).

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Metric0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

plural
Total Risks
possessive
Total Risk's
pluralpossessive
Total Risks'

Framework definitions

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 21 senseview framework →
§1
The potential for the occurrence of an adverse event if no mitigating action is taken (i.e., the potential for any applicable threat to exploit a system vulnerability).
NIST SP 800-161 senseview framework →
§1
The potential for the occurrence of an adverse event if no mitigating action is taken (i.e., the potential for any applicable threat to exploit a system vulnerability).

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