2SOURCES OF INFORMATION

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To have a successful vulnerability management program, you need information from several data sources. This chapter introduces you to each of these sources. In the next chapter, you’ll see how they all come together to give you a useful vulnerability landscape for your organization.

Asset Information

Despite the importance of asset information, many organizations, large and small, don’t have a full—or even fragmentary—understanding of what is on their networks. Perhaps you use a spreadsheet that you pass among network administrators and update intermittently. Or maybe you have a database of Windows desktops using a CMDB ...

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