How to Use security risk in a Sentence

security risk

noun
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  • For seven hours, anyone trying to post a Reflector link was met with a warning that the the site posed a security risk.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The planned move was announced in May, with the explanation that unused accounts pose a security risk to users.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Her first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire, said City Hall has hired private firms to clear up space on sidewalks so the trash doesn’t become a security risk.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The app is also in the crosshairs of U.S. lawmakers who see TikTok as a national security risk.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • On the other side of things, having a customer service team that can recover your password is a great thing — and a security risk.
    — David Pierce, The Verge, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Charges that Oppenheimer was a Soviet spy and a security risk – a major focus of the movie – have been disproved.
    — Calder Walton, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • Golan was asked if her presence at the contest presented a security risk.
    — Fred Bronson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • One of those ways is if the government can demonstrate a national security risk.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 7 May 2024
  • This screening should determine whether a person might pose a health or security risk and their chances of being permitted to stay.
    — Lorne Cook, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2024
  • TikTok has faced claims that its in-app browser tracks its users’ keyboard entries, and that this type of conduct, known as keylogging, could be a security risk.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Singapore was deemed to have the second lowest digital security risk on the list.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 23 July 2024
  • Lithuania closed two of its six border checkpoints with Belarus last week, citing the security risk posed by Wagner.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Opening a route for Palestinians may also present a new security risk in the Sinai peninsula, where the army has only just managed to get a handle on its fight with Islamist militants.
    — Mirette Magdy, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The United States and its allies have viewed sales of the deep ultraviolet lithography machines as less of a national security risk.
    — Mara Hvistendahl, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Inslee also wants more money to recruit and retain workers at Eastern State and Western State hospitals, where staffing has long been a safety and security risk.
    — Carleen Johnson, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • This dual reality, Europe needing China for some things but deeming it a security risk and nefarious actor on the world stage, is what makes all this such a headache.
    — Luke McGee, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
  • With this system, there is no security risk, because there are no unencrypted electromagnetic waves sent out into the air to hack.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 May 2022
  • Apple and the tech lobby, meanwhile, have argued for years that devices are so complex that only licensed specialists can be trusted to fix them and that private repair presents a security risk.
    — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2023
  • But that law also gives the government and platforms discretion to agree when sharing exact statistics might pose no security risk.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Yet the Biden administration is worried that the company’s chips, key to the AI revolution, are a national security risk if sent to China.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Israeli human-rights activists had long said that maintaining Gaza as an open-air prison was not only inhumane toward the residents of Gaza but also a security risk for the region.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Portugal, another country with no security risk, was rejected because of worries about the power supply and the speed of the permitting process.
    — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 5 July 2023
  • And in 2021, the red team published an additional AI security risk assessment framework.
    — WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
  • While the ban’s critics decry it as a First Amendment violation, supporters say the app poses a national security risk.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2024
  • TikTok has faced criticism from US officials who say the company’s links to China pose a national security risk.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 14 June 2023
  • The red-carpet treatment by Serbia and Hungary has worried some of their Western partners, which see China’s incursion into the region as both an economic and security risk.
    — Justin Spike, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2024
  • As part of the program, the corporation created security risk maps to evaluate mortgage lending risks.
    — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Denson introduced emails Sandoval sent to senior officials describing her as a security risk who should be reported to the police and the Secret Service.
    — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 23 May 2024
  • Both Huawei and Tiktok have repeatedly denied that their products present a national security risk or would be accessed by the Chinese government.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 15 June 2023
  • Any overuse of information represents an unnecessary, enhanced security risk for the release of private data, according to Whiteley and experts interviewed by The Times.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024

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