Window of vulnerability

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A window of vulnerability or wov is a time frame within which defensive measures are reduced, compromised or lacking.

The term is used with reference to military defences of strategic assets, and also by analogy in computer software to a software vulnerability which is open to exploitation.

Also this terms are used to define the time period when a puppy is not protected by a vaccine. This is because, after the 1st dose, maternal antibodies neutralize the action of that dose until next one is given. This lapsus will depend on the inmunogenicity of the vaccine that is being used