work factor
nounid
4684·updated May 9, 2026verified
Estimate of the effort or time needed by a potential perpetrator, with specified expertise and resources, to overcome a protective measure.
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Entity Type
Metric85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- work factors
- possessive
- work factor's
- pluralpossessive
- work factors'
Framework definitions
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon1 senseview framework →
- §1
- An estimate of the effort or time needed by a potential adversary, with specified expertise and resources, to overcome a protective measure.
- §1
- Estimate of the effort or time needed by a potential perpetrator, with specified expertise and resources, to overcome a protective measure.
- §1
- Estimate of the effort or time needed by a potential perpetrator, with specified expertise and resources, to overcome a protective measure.
- §1 · legacy_primary
- Estimate of the effort or time needed by a potential perpetrator, with specified expertise and resources, to overcome a protective measure.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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