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Glossary: Business Risk, Third Parties and Compliance

Exposure factor (EF)

Also written: EF

The share of an asset's value that one event destroys, written as a percentage or decimal. Ransomware wiping half the order server's value is an EF of 50% (0.5).

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Related terms

Asset value (AV)Single loss expectancy (SLE)Annualized rate of occurrence (ARO)