1BASIC CONCEPTS
Before you dive into vulnerability management, you should first understand some basic information about vulnerabilities. You might already be familiar with vulnerabilities and their varying risk levels. If so, consider this chapter a refresher to prepare you for the more advanced topics to come. This chapter isn’t an exhaustive primer of information security concepts, but it should be enough to ensure that the rest of the book is comprehensible.
The CIA Triad and Vulnerabilities
The three main pillars of information security are confidentiality of information (who can access data), integrity of information (who can modify data), ...
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