Threat and Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability management is the cyclical practice of identifying, classifying, prioritizing, remediating, and mitigating software vulnerabilities. Vulnerability management is vital for any organization. The term vulnerability management commonly gets confused with vulnerability assessment. Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing (or ranking) the vulnerabilities in a system. The optimal approach to creating an effective vulnerability management strategy is by making it a vulnerability management life cycle. The vulnerability management life cycle schedules all vulnerability mitigation processes in a prioritized order. The correct counter actions are scheduled to be performed at the right time to find and address vulnerabilities before attackers can abuse them and have the chance to proceed with an...