Rest assured that if these two concepts are confusedly interchanged, it will not be the first time. On page 6, in a tome entitled Critical Foundations, the issue of the Commission's year and a half of work was summarized. This is a classical misstatement of threats and vulnerabilities. In the cited example, threats and vulnerabilities are treated as similar and equal concepts. Rather, they are dissimilar and opposite concepts.
Threats face vulnerabilities.
They are external to the infrastructure. Vulnerabilities are defects in the infrastructure. They are internal and part of the infrastructure. It is so easy to confuse the two concepts. It can only be hoped that the President's advisors are more perceptive in other areas and there reflect more accuracy in their words.