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The characteristics of a system that cause it to suffer a definite degradation (incapability of performing a designated mission) as a result of having been subjected to a certain level of electromagnetic environmental effects.

A reference to being impossible to harm, to damage, or to defeat: "The candidate's invulnerability was apparent."

1. Not vulnerable, that is, incapable of being wounded, or of receiving injury: "The basketball team seems to be invulnerable this season."
2. Unable to be wounded, damaged, hurt, or affected: "She was invulnerable to criticism."
3. Unable to be successfully attacked by a military force; immune to attack; impregnable.

1. The quality or state of being invulnerable or secure from wounds or injury.
2. Not open to denial or disproof; such as, an invulnerable argument.

1. A reference to being impossible to harm or to damage.
2. In an invulnerable manner or incapable of being wounded or of receiving injury.

Invulnerable or incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed.

In computer security, the term vulnerability is applied to a weakness in a system which allows an attacker to violate the integrity of that system.

Vulnerabilities may result from weak passwords, software bugs, a computer virus, or other malware, or a script code injection.

A security risk is classified as a vulnerability if it is recognized as a possible means of attack.

One dimension of vulnerability to multiple stressors and shocks, including natural hazards.

Social vulnerability refers to the inability of people, organizations, and societies to withstand adverse impacts from multiple stressors to which they are exposed. These impacts are due in part to characteristics inherent in social interactions, institutions, and systems of cultural values.

In antiterrorism, the pairing of a facility's threat analysis and vulnerability analysis.

1. Susceptibility to injury or to attack.
2. Capable of being wounded, hurt, or susceptible to pathogenic agents.
3. The degree to which a population, species, ecosystem, agricultural system, or other biological entity is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, the adverse effects of climate changes.

In information operations, a systematic examination of an information system or product to determine the adequacy of security measures, identify security deficiencies, provide data from which to predict the effectiveness of proposed security measures, and confirm the adequacy of such measures after implementation.

A program that performs the diagnostic phase of a vulnerability analysis, also known as vulnerability assessment.

Vulnerability analysis defines, identifies, and classifies the security holes (vulnerabilities) in a computer, server, network, or communications infrastructure.

In addition, vulnerability analysis can forecast the effectiveness of proposed countermeasures, and evaluate how well they work after they are put into use.

1. Open to physical or emotional harm; easily hurt, easily wounded.
2. Being extremely susceptible, easily persuadable, or liable to give in to temptation.
3. Unable to resist illness, debility, or physical failure because of weakness physically or psychologically; therefor, susceptible to physical or emotional injury: "All of those who have not been inoculated are vulnerable to the disease."
4. Open to censure or criticism; assailable: "His sister has always been vulnerable to criticism."
5. With the military open to attack or exposed to an attack or possible damage.
6. Etymology: from Late Latin vulnerabilis, "wounding"; from Latin vulnerare, "to wound"; from vulnus, vulneris, "wound".

1. Capable of being physically or emotionally wounded.
2. Open to attack or damage; assailable or in a position of being attacked violently with blows or words.

1. Exposed to being attacked or harmed.
2. A reference to being susceptible to physical or emotional injury.