How to Use security risk in a Sentence

security risk

noun
  • That’s convenient, but there could be a security risk if one of your devices gets lost or stolen.
    — PC Magazine, 17 June 2025
  • And that’s a major security risk.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Cars equipped with cameras to enable self-driving features have added a new security risk.
    — Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • WhatsApp messages are also stored on your device, which poses a security risk if it is stolen or lost.
    — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The question is whether that security risk is enough to justify speech restrictions.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 16 Sep. 2024
  • This seems to be national security risk of huge proportion.
    — CBS News, 14 June 2026
  • Anything else is a governance and security risk.
    — Carl D'halluin, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • To have 170 million phones running an app that can’t be updated is a huge security risk.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • These systems are reliable, but the talent pool is shrinking and the security risk is rising.
    — Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Singapore was deemed to have the second lowest digital security risk on the list.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That's not just inefficient but also a security risk.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And in the middle of the Iran war, its proponents fear that could pose a major national security risk.
    — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 8 June 2026
  • One source said the leaks posed an operational security risk for officers involved.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The government added the devices pose no national security risk to Hungary.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The system becomes a security risk when the model learns from flawed inputs, producing faulty predictions or insights.
    — Vivek Ahuja, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The judge asked Bruns, the government attorney, what standards are used to decide if a reporter poses a security risk.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Instead, the business is forced to operate in cash, creating a constant security risk for its employees.
    — Hannah Parker, NBC news, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Top leadership news Is renting from foreign providers a national security risk?
    — Diane Brady, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • 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
  • Last year, most lawmakers deemed the Chinese tech giant ByteDance a national security risk and banned its apps.
    — Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • There's real security risk too, and most CMOs aren't taking it seriously enough.
    — Micha Hershman, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

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