Vulnerability management Lab | Nessus Essentials
What is it? Vulnerability assessment or vulnerability management is a process of analyzing an organization's systems for possible security flaws. It runs a vulnerability analysis to see if the organization is vulnerable to known vulnerabilities, provides a severity level to those vulnerabilities, and suggests if the danger should be mitigated or remediated. Vulnerability testing aids organizations in determining whether their systems and software have insecure default settings, such as admin passwords that are easily guessable. It also checks for a potential escalation of user rights or faulty authentication procedures, as well as vulnerability to code injection attacks such as SQL injection (SQLi) and cross-site scripting (XSS). fortinet.com/resources Types of Vulnerability Assessments The following are the most prevalent types of vulnerability assessments used by businesses: Network scan: Identifies susceptible systems on an organization's wired and wireless networks that c...
