Vulnerability vs Resilience - What's the difference?
vulnerability | resilience |
(uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
(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
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).
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
English
(wikipedia vulnerability)Noun
- The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.