8 Understanding risk
This chapter covers
- Demonstrating the differences between issues, vulnerabilities, threats, and risks
- Enriching our existing model of the three factors of cybersecurity
- Exploring CVE and CVSS scores, learning how to measure the severity of a vulnerability, and learning for yourself how to calculate CVE and CVSS values
- Learning how to apply context to a risk model
- Combining this knowledge to build easy-to-read reports showing the level of risk
As we kick off part 2 of the book, we start looking at things from a purely defensive point of view and dive in at a deeper level to see how to protect ourselves and our organizations from attackers. Although it would be useful for you to have read the first half of the book, this ...
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