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Risk factors were first introduced in Chap. 1 and have been a focus of attention ever since. The reason they receive such attention is that they determine the magnitude of risk in any threat scenario. An actual measurement is significant due to the contribution of any risk factor to the overall magnitude of risk coupled with the insight gained via a quantitative analysis.
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Young, C.S. (2019). Risk Factor Measurements. In: Risk and the Theory of Security Risk Assessment. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30600-7_7
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