security risk

noun

1

: someone who could damage an organization by giving information to an enemy or competitor

2

: someone or something that is a risk to safety

Any package left unattended will be deemed a security risk.

Examples of security risk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Developers and states sued, and federal judges allowed all five to resume construction, essentially concluding that the government didn’t show that the national security risk was so imminent that construction must halt. —ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026

For example, the Pentagon has declared a contractor, Anthropic, a national security risk because Anthropic insisted that its powerful agentic AI model, Claude, not be used for mass domestic surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons. —Anne Toomey McKenna, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026

The rare collaboration underscores the severity of a concern raised by US AI companies that some users, especially in China, are creating imitation versions of their products that could undercut them on price and siphon away customers while posing a national security risk. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026

The sector-specific tariffs follow a Commerce Department investigation that determined certain pharmaceutical imports pose a national security risk to the United States. —Annika Kim Constantino,angelica Peebles, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026

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