The phrase "an amount of security" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific quantity or level of security, often in contexts related to finance, safety, or data protection.
Example: "The company has invested an amount of security to protect its sensitive data from cyber threats."
Alternatives: "a level of security" or "a degree of security."
Working on an entirely different principle, it used a very small light key, yet gave an unprecedented amount of security.
"This release had an unusual amount of security so, therefore, in that sense, it would not be a normal release," said Allen Moore, a spokesman for the Orange County Jail.
Downtown Washington is the heart of an astonishing amount of security activity, obvious to the public only at times like the morning last week when a distraught former federal employee appeared outside the White House fence with a gun.
I mean, it would have been easy for them to say, 'We've given you an unprecedented amount of security—now fend for yourself.' And instead, she stepped in with a new building, and a deferred-maintenance account to protect it"—and then provided another $20 million endowment for the civics institute.
"This release had an unusual amount of security so, therefore, in that sense, it would not be a normal release," Orange County Corrections Department spokesman Allen Moore said.
Level 3 cross-cut shredders produce pieces roughly 3 inches long by 3/16 of an inch wide and offer a certain amount of security, while Level 4 and 5 machines, used by corporations and governments for sensitive documents, produce even smaller pieces.
In this work, we develop MUSE (M utually-reinforced U nsupervised S coring for E nterprise risk), a risk analysis framework that analyzes a large amount of security alerts and computes the reputation of diverse entities based on various domain knowledge and interactions among these entities.
Intel's chips already have a significant amount of security features.
