Chapter 3
Vulnerability Management Activities
This chapter covers the following topics related to Objective 1.3 (Given a scenario, perform vulnerability management activities) of the CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) CS0-002 certification exam:
Vulnerability identification: Explores asset criticality, active vs. passive scanning, and mapping/enumeration.
Validation: Covers true positive, false positive, true negative, and false negative alerts.
Remediation/mitigation: Describes configuration baseline, patching, hardening, compensating controls, risk acceptance, and verification of mitigation.
Scanning parameters and criteria: Explains risks associated with scanning activities, vulnerability feed, scope, credentialed vs. non-credentialed ...
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