Performing Vulnerability Assessments

The race between cybersecurity professionals and threat actors is a never-ending marathon as hackers are always developing new techniques to discover and exploit security weaknesses in their targets’ systems, and security teams are working continuously to find hidden vulnerabilities and implement countermeasures to protect their assets before a real cyber-attack occurs. While software and product vendors frequently push security updates and patches to their applications, there’s no one system that’s fully secure from threats and attacks. Hence, it’s important that organizations perform regular ethical hacking and penetration testing assessments on their systems and networks to find any hidden security flaws and determine whether their security controls are effective in preventing real attacks and threats.

In this chapter, you will learn how vulnerability management helps organizations to improve their security posture...