Network Vulnerability Assessment

Requirements for vulnerability scoring

Take any modern-day network and scan it for vulnerabilities. You'll be overwhelmed and find tons of vulnerabilities. Now, if you keep scanning the network, say monthly, then your inventory of vulnerabilities will keep growing rapidly. If all these vulnerabilities are presented as is to the senior management, then this will not be of any help. Senior management is more interested in some precise information that would be actionable.

A typical vulnerability scanner may find 100 vulnerabilities in a particular system. Out of 100, 30 may be false positives, 25 may be informational, 25 may be low severity, 15 may be medium severity, and five may be high-severity vulnerabilities. Naturally, out of 100 reported ...