Abstract
This chapter provides a concise guide to vulnerability management. In addition to various concepts, examples, and product screenshots it serves as a comprehensive methodology checklist for vulnerability management. It offers eight essential steps for vulnerability management. These steps include: knowing one's assets, categorizing these assets, creating a baseline scan of the assets, performing penetration test on certain assets, remediating vulnerabilities and risk, creating a vulnerability assessment (VA) schedule, creating a patch and change management process, and monitoring for new risks to assets. The chapter also demonstrates the close link among vulnerability assessment, patch management, configuration management, and threat awareness—in ways that help one understand that each of these is a required step when dealing with vulnerabilities, and that each is truly capable of securing a vulnerable network. Various security tools are also presented in the chapter. A tool that has worked great for one, may not work as well for the other. Thus, these tools should be selected based on the specific requirements.
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