Equation 4 · Part 7 · AI and Cybersecurity in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide

Starting index or lower bound: c

E = \sum_{c} p_c \, d_c.

c

What this part means

This label says where the repeated addition, multiplication, or accumulation starts. Read its value or condition together with the article’s description of the index.

Its job in the formula

c appears in the bound of this sum. The bound states where the repeated operation starts, ends, or which values it includes.

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The passage around this formula

There is a simple way to see why capability removal should be the default move rather than the fallback. Model the expected exposure created by a credential as a sum over the capabilities c it carries, each with some probability $p_c$ that it is exploited in a given period and some damage $d_c$ if it is: $E = \sum_{c} p_c \, d_c$ . Two of the terms in that sum are hard to know honestly. An estimate of $p_c$ assumes a threat model that has to guess at an adversary’s behaviour, and $d_c$ is only…

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Σ adds a collection of terms. Π multiplies them. The lower and upper labels tell you which terms belong to the collection.

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