Feature Exposure

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Security Core

Record: lexicon:feature-exposure

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which functionality is made accessible, which broadens capability but enlarges the attack surface.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Ease of Initial Use and before Formatting Flexibility.

Category

• Security Privacy Compliance

In tension with

• Attack Surface Reduction
• Attack Surface Reduction / Feature Exposure

Linked from

• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• The resolutions