There are lots of prerequisites before one can actually start a vulnerability assessment for an infrastructure. In this chapter, we tried to cover all such prerequisites in brief. From the next chapter onward, we will be dealing with the actual vulnerability assessment methodology.
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Packt Upsell
- Contributors
- Preface
- Vulnerability Management Governance
- Setting Up the Assessment Environment
- Security Assessment Prerequisites
- Target scoping and planning
- Gathering requirements
- Deciding upon the type of vulnerability assessment
- Estimating the resources and deliverables
- Preparing a test plan
- Getting approval and signing NDAs
- Summary
- Information Gathering
- Enumeration and Vulnerability Assessment
- Gaining Network Access
- Assessing Web Application Security
- Privilege Escalation
- Maintaining Access and Clearing Tracks
- Vulnerability Scoring
- Threat Modeling
- Patching and Security Hardening
- Vulnerability Reporting and Metrics
- Importance of reporting
- Type of reports
- Reporting tools
- Collaborative vulnerability management with Faraday v2.6
- Metrics
- Mean time to detect
- Mean time to resolve
- Scanner coverage
- Scan frequency by asset group
- Number of open critical/high vulnerabilities
- Average risk by BU, asset group, and so on
- Number of exceptions granted
- Vulnerability reopen rate
- Percentage of systems with no open high/critical vulnerability
- Vulnerability ageing
- Summary
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