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Acceptance of Elevated Residual Risk During Holiday Window Under Zero-Patch Conditions

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CHQ Position v2025.12

Position Type: Time-Bound Risk Acceptance
Decision Window: December 24, 2024 – January 6, 2025

Acceptance of Elevated Residual Risk Under Fixed Organizational Constraints

A time-bound risk position

This document records a binding executive risk posture for a defined decision window.
It is written to preserve judgment continuity across board review, audit scrutiny, and post-incident assessment.

Access to the full Position, including scope of validity, accepted tradeoffs, deferred decisions, and reference-ready language, requires active Position Coverage.

Personal Judgment Coverage required

This section contains executive judgment synthesis reserved for Personal Judgment Coverage. It is designed for individual signal interpretation and is not intended for organizational decision defense or board, audit, or regulatory reuse.

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