Network Security Assessment: From Vulnerability to Patch

Chapter 6. Going Further

Solutions in this chapter

• Types of Penetration Tests

• Scenario: An Internal Network Attack

• Penetration Testing

• Vulnerability Assessment versus a Penetration Test

• Internal versus External

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Introduction

Vulnerability assessment (VA) represents a key element of an organization’s information security program. A VA highlights an organization’s security liabilities and helps asset owners, ...