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_17

17. Vulnerability Management Architecture

Morey J. Haber¹  and Brad Hibbert²

(1)

Heathrow, Florida, USA

(2)

Carp, Ontario, Canada

 

Once a vendor has been selected for vulnerability management, the process of an actual implementation will vary greatly from one vendor to another. The simple question is why? Each of the leading vendors has taken a different technology approach to instrumenting vulnerability management at the console or management layer but is actually very similar at the scanning layer. This is why you hear security professionals state, “a network scanner is a network scanner” or that “vulnerability assessment ...