Network Security Assessment: From Vulnerability to Patch

Chapter 11. Tying It All Together

Solutions in this chapter

• A Vulnerability Management Methodology

• Step One: Know Your Assets

• Step Two: Categorize Your Assets

• Step Three: Create a Baseline Scan of Assets

• Step Four: Perform a Penetration Test on Certain Assets

• Step Five: Remediate Vulnerabilities and Risk

• Step Six: Create a Vulnerability Assessment Schedule

• Step Seven: Create a Patch and Change Management Process

• Step Eight: Monitor for New Risks to Assets

Introduction

Congratulations on reaching the final chapter of the book! We hope you have been able to use the examples we’ve presented throughout in your daily battles, securing and monitoring your systems. One of the things that we have been annoyed with in the past is books written by multiple authors ...