Summary
In this chapter, we covered an incredibly vast amount of information, and I must reiterate like a broken record that each and every one of these key terms in this chapter could have an entire book (or series) devoted to a deep dive into them. The purpose of this book is more focused on reacquainting you with the key points, helping you look at each of these in the right way, and applying high-level principles to your knowledge to increase your effectiveness at your organization.
From assets and their vulnerabilities, to threat actors and their motivations, to the methodologies that those threat actors use to exploit the vulnerabilities in our assets, we leapt across several major issues in information security, both from strategic and operational standpoints, in order to properly understand the landscape.
By understanding the landscape, we moved into applying our risk management principles and knowledge surrounding the impact and likelihood of a threat exploiting a vulnerability...
