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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

Getting approval and signing NDAs

Based on specific requirements, an organization may choose to conduct any type of vulnerability assessment as discussed in the section earlier. However, it is important that the vulnerability assessment is approved and authorized by senior management. Though most of the professional vulnerability assessment is conducted in quite a controlled manner, there still remains the possibility of something becoming disruptive. In such a case, preapproved support from senior management is crucial.

An NDA is one of the most important documents that a VA tester has to sign before the test begins. This agreement ensures that the test results are handled with high confidentiality and the findings are disclosed only to authorized stakeholders. An organization's internal vulnerability assessment team might not require the signing of an NDA for each and every...

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