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Chapter 4

Network Vulnerability

Assessment Methodology

The growth of distributed computing has been one of the major drivers for

network security. With the exponential growth of networks, the ease with

which information can be shared between and among computer networks

makes security more important but more difficult to implement and manage.

Computers are no longer connected to one trusted network; they are poten-

tially connected to every other network and its computers in the world, with

or without security implementations of their own.

In the old mainframe environment, security meant keeping the computer

in a locked room with limited access. As computing ...