Asset Attack Vectors: Building Effective Vulnerability Management Strategies to Protect Organizations

© Morey J. Haber, Brad Hibbert 2018

Morey J. Haber and Brad HibbertAsset Attack Vectorshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3627-7_13

13. Vulnerability Management Design

Morey J. Haber¹  and Brad Hibbert²

(1)

Heathrow, Florida, USA

(2)

Carp, Ontario, Canada

 

A key requirement for any Security Officer is reducing the risks of a cyber attack by finding and closing off holes in the IT infrastructure, and this is exactly what a sound vulnerability management (VM) program should do. An effective VM program should be designed to ensure that the people, processes, policies, and selected technologies work together to proactively protect, shield, and defend the enterprise from cyber threats. As threats cannot be completely eliminated, and as the Security Officer ...