The Differences between Risks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities

The terms, risks, threat, and vulnerabilities are often used to imply the same things. The condition is facilitated by the aspect of people using the casually, thus failing to conduct comprehensive analysis of their real meaning. A risk refers to the potential for damage or loss of an item or asset. Risks exploit vulnerabilities to bring about destruction (Allen & Derr, 2016). For instance, the risk of the United States increases when the security agencies, such as the homeland security become incompetent. In this case, incompetency is the vulnerability which the terrorists can exploit to attack the nation. The outlook implies that dealing with vulnerabilities effectively lowers or eliminates risks completely.