A system is only as secure as its most vulnerable link, and becomes geometrically less secure with each additional vulnerability.
In the complex chain of plants and equipment that move oil from the Middle East, oil tankers are in many ways the most vulnerable link.
The most vulnerable link in the drug chain involves light aircraft that ferry processed cocaine from laboratories in the Llanos to the coasts.
[C1.] Merchants Seen as Vulnerable Link to Data Breaches While banks and payment processors have been targets in the largest cases of data theft, security specialists say the payment system's most vulnerable points may be the millions of merchants where cards are accepted.
"It's very clear that over the years the military-to-military relationship has been the most vulnerable link between the two countries in times of stress," said David M. Finkelstein, an analyst for the CNA Corporation's Center for Strategic Studies who has studied the exchanges.
This is done based on the target signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (SINR) and tolerable interference of the vulnerable link.
Pope Benedict XVI, made great strides in helping bring awareness to climate change and the impacts it will have on the poor and vulnerable, linking climate change to food insecurity and water scarcity and calling for action.
Considering the heart as the obviously most vulnerable link of the cardiovascular chain, it must be one of our goals to relieve the heart as much as possible, while 'enforcing' as much systemic blood flow as necessary for peripheral organs.
At present, dengue control focuses on reducing the density of the primary vector for the disease, Aedes aegypti, which is the only vulnerable link in the chain of transmission.
The tenants like that just fine because the last thing they want is to attract attention to themselves and their delicate equipment and vulnerable fiber links.
