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_2

2. The Vulnerability Landscape

Morey J. Haber¹  and Brad Hibbert²

(1)

Heathrow, Florida, USA

(2)

Carp, Ontario, Canada

 

A vulnerability is the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of an attack, degradation, or harm, either physically, electronically, or emotionally. While the first two translate easily into cyber security, emotion vulnerabilities can manifest themselves in hacktivism, nation-state attacks, and even cyber bullying. Understanding the vulnerability landscape is important in order to design a proper defense and in many cases, our physical and electronic worlds can be blurred when considering the ...