Physical Exposure

Physical Exposure definition - hacker
A rating used to calculate a systemÂ’s vulnerability. It is based on whether a perpetrator needs physical access to a system in order to exploit the systemÂ’s vulnerability.

See Also: Access Control; Vulnerabilities of Computers.

Symantec Security Response. Glossary. [Online, July 15, 2004.] Symantec Security Response Website. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/refa.html.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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