Chapter 9

Strategic Vulnerabilities

Now that the reader has gained a comprehensive understanding of what vulnerability management (VM) means from a technical, procedural, and management level, we will explore how vulnerabilities show up on a larger, strategic scale and how they can be remediated. No technology or special process will identify these things. It requires experience and a particularly pragmatic mindset. The manager must understand their enemy not only by their methods but also by their motivations and goals. The specific targets and attacks are less significant when analyzing strategic weakness. This chapter explores VM at a very high level in the organization where business strategy and technology strategy are ...

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