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Network Vulnerability Assessment

You're reading from   Network Vulnerability Assessment Identify security loopholes in your network's infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788627252
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Preface 1. Vulnerability Management Governance FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up the Assessment Environment 3. Security Assessment Prerequisites 4. Information Gathering 5. Enumeration and Vulnerability Assessment 6. Gaining Network Access 7. Assessing Web Application Security 8. Privilege Escalation 9. Maintaining Access and Clearing Tracks 10. Vulnerability Scoring 11. Threat Modeling 12. Patching and Security Hardening 13. Vulnerability Reporting and Metrics 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Benefits of threat modeling

For any given project, it is always helpful to understand the threats that may hinder the overall progress. Threat modeling does the exact same thing. Some benefits of threat modeling are :

  • Threat modeling produces software that is inherently secure by design—if the threat modeling is done right in the design phase, then the end product will become inherently secure against most common potential threats.
  • Threat modeling allows us to think and discuss product security in a more structured way—instead of discussing security threats in an ad-hoc manner, threat modeling offers a more formal and structured way of enumerating and documenting security threats.
  • Threat modeling permits development teams to effectively identify and define security flaws early in the SDLC process.
  • Threat modeling allows us to document and share application security...
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