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Vulnerability vs Resilience - What's the difference?

vulnerability | resilience |

As nouns the difference between vulnerability and resilience

is that vulnerability is susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended while resilience is the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

vulnerability

Noun

  • (uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
  • The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.
  • (countable) a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
  • (computing) a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security
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    resilience

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia resilience)
  • The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
  • The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
  • The positive ability of a system or company to adapt itself to the consequences of a catastrophic failure caused by power outage, a fire, a bomb or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).