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## How is risk score calculated? [how-is-risk-score-calculated]
## How are risk scores calculated? [how-is-risk-score-calculated]

1. The risk scoring engine runs hourly to aggregate `Open` and `Acknowledged` alerts from the last 30 days. For each entity, the engine processes up to 10,000 alerts.
1. The risk scoring engine runs hourly to aggregate `Open` and `Acknowledged` alerts from the last 30 days, including [building block alerts](/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/about-building-block-rules.md). For each entity, the engine processes up to 10,000 alerts.

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When [turning on the risk engine](turn-on-risk-scoring-engine.md), you can choose to also include `Closed` alerts in risk scoring calculations.
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The risk score is updated every hour based on the configured date and time range, which defaults to 30 days. Each update generates a new score, calculated independently of any previous scores.

### Residual risk score

In some cases, entities can retain a residual risk score:

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👍 I think this is clear based on the current behavior, thank you!

@tiansivive This verbiage should allow us to very easily add another line in a future version based on the work you're currently doing, such as This behavior can be disabled via the "Retain residual risk" [or "Reset entity scores having no inputs"] toggle (name still to be determined).

* If all alerts for an entity are closed
* If all of the entity’s open alerts fall outside of the configured date and time range

In these situations, the entity retains its last computed risk score until a new alert causes the score to be recalculated.

::::{dropdown} Click for a risk score calculation example
This example shows how the risk scoring engine calculates the user risk score for `User_A`, whose asset criticality level is **Extreme impact**.

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