Chapter 12
Risk and Vulnerability Management
This chapter covers the following topics:
The Vocabulary of Risk: This section discusses risk and its three prerequisites: assets, threats, and vulnerabilities.
Vulnerabilities: This section discusses vulnerabilities, vulnerability management, and scanning.
Risk: This section discusses risk prioritization, management, and response.
For cybersecurity professionals, it can be easy to see security as an end unto itself. Our infrastructure must be secure. When a major attack occurs, anyone who pushed back will rue the day they didn’t heed our warning! But cybersecurity doesn’t exist for its own sake: It serves to reduce organizational risk. Understanding risk, its components, and its management is crucial ...
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