Let us start with the news section vulnerability assessment in this lecture.
They're going to learn an introduction to vulnerability assessment.
So what is vulnerability assessment?
Vulnerability assessment refers to the process of identifying risks and vulnerabilities in a computer
network system, hardware applications and other parts of IT ecosystem.
When their ability assessments provide security teams and other stakeholders with the information they
need to analyze and prioritize risks for potential remediation in the proper context, vulnerability
assessments are a critical component of the vulnerability management and I.T. risk management lifecycle,
thus helping protect systems and data from unauthorized access and data breaches.
When the assessment typically leverages tools like vulnerability scanners to identify threats and flaws
within an organization's I.T. infrastructure that represents potential vulnerabilities or risk exposures
through Iowa, Narrabundah assessments are important.
Vulnerability assessments allow security teams to apply consistent, comprehensive and clear approach
in identifying and resolving security threats and risks.
There are several benefits to an organization like early and consistent identification of threats and
weaknesses in I.T. security remediation actions to close any gaps and protect sensitive systems and
information.
Meet cybersecurity, compliance and regulatory needs for areas like HIPAA and PCI.
DHS, protect against data breaches and other unauthorized access is vulnerability.
Assessment is important because an administrator needs vulnerability research like to gather information
about security threats, threats and attacks, and thus when the assessment is very important for any
pain test, what other types of vulnerability assessment?
First is the active assessment inactive assessment.
It uses a network scanner to find hosts, services and vulnerabilities.
Next is the passive assessment.
It is a technique used to sniff the network traffic to find out active systems, network services,
applications and vulnerabilities present in the system.
External assessment.
It assesses the network from a hackers point to find what types of exploit and vulnerabilities are present
in the system.
Internal assessment.
It is a technique to scan the internal infrastructure to find out experts and the vulnerabilities.
Host risk assessment.
It determines the vulnerabilities in a specific workstation or server, a performing configuration level.
Check through to the command line network assessments.
It determines the possible network security attacks that may occur in the organization system application
assessments.
It tests the web infrastructure for any misconfiguration and for the known vulnerabilities and the last.
Its wireless network assessments determines the vulnerabilities in the organization's wireless networks.
This is all for this lecture.
In the next lecture, we will see the phases of vulnerability assessment with different tools.