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Chapter 4. Vulnerability Assessment: Step One

Solutions in this chapter

• Know Your Network

• Classifying Your Assets

• I Thought This Was a Vulnerability Assessment Chapter

  Summary

Introduction

This chapter will begin our discussion of developing a vulnerability assessment (VA) methodology, by outlining the first steps to performing a proper vulnerability assessment. A vulnerability assessment is different from a penetration test in that typically you perform a VA with broad knowledge of the environment you are testing; as you will learn in an upcoming chapter, a pen test is typically more in-depth and focused. The purpose of a vulnerability assessment, as ...