8 VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT
In defensive security the term ‘vulnerability management’ is used to describe the function of identifying, classifying (usually by severity), tracking and remediating various software vulnerabilities, so they can no longer be exploited by a malicious actor. Those vulnerabilities could have been introduced at the code level, or caused by a misconfiguration during deployment. Vulnerability management is typically driven by security operations teams but requires the support of multiple teams to be done correctly.
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