@misc{Smolarkiewicz_Marcin_Risk_2025,
 author={Smolarkiewicz, Marcin},
 contributor={Buczko, Jerzy. Redakcja and Pietkiewicz, Jerzy Jan. Redakcja},
 identifier={DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0055.5683},
 year={2025},
 rights={Wszystkie prawa zastrzeżone (Copyright)},
 description={Zeszyty Naukowe Collegium Witelona, nr 54(1)/2025, s. 51-66},
 publisher={Wydawnictwo Collegium Witelona Uczelnia Państwowa},
 language={eng},
 abstract={In research practice, the concept of risk is always considered together with the concept of security. While security is examined in scientific studies from the perspective of object-oriented, subject-oriented, and processual approaches, risk as an entity is considered primarily from a practical standpoint and much less often from a theoretical one. In theoretical considerations, an important question arises: should risk be understood as a state or as a process? Research conducted with the application of theoretical methods indicates that risk has a dual nature – it is a process dynamically changing over time, composed of an uncountable set of momentary states, forming a superposition of the influence of threat manifestations on the security subject (the protected entity). On the other hand, it is also a measure of the momentary state of this process, understood as a function of measurable factors: the probability of the occurrence of a hazardous event and the potential loss caused by that event, taking into account the relationship between the characteristics of the threat and the features of the protected entity together with its environment. This measure is negatively correlated with security measures.},
 title={Risk as an entity in security sciences - is it a state or a process?},
 type={artykuł},
 keywords={risk, security risk, risk management},
}