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Chapter 8

Summary

This book has been designed to assist the security professional in understand-

ing what must be done to conduct a network vulnerability assessment (NVA).

Because no organization has unlimited resources to devote to security, we

attempted to divide the tasks into manageable portions. Because budgets are

always strained, we attempted to show the security and audit professional

where to get the tools that would be effective and as cheap as possible.

Most failed projects come to grief because the scope of the project was

poorly defined to begin with, or because the scope was not managed well.

We attempted to discuss Project Overview Statements ...