Window of vulnerability

Window of vulnerability

A window of vulnerability or wov is a time frame within which defensive measures are reduced, compromised or lacking.

The term is used with reference to military defences of strategic assets, and also by analogy in computer software to a software vulnerability which is open to exploitation.


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