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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

Gathering requirements

Before we can even think of starting the vulnerability assessment, it is extremely important to very clearly understand customer requirements. The customer may be internal or external to the organization. For a VA tester, it is important to know what the customer is expecting from the test. In order to identify and document the customer requirements, the following things need to be done.

Preparing a detailed checklist of test requirements

The tester needs to set up multiple meetings with the customer to understand their requirements. The outcome should include but not be limited to the following:

  • Security compliance that the customer wants to comply with
  • Requirements and code of conduct (if any) stated...
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