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Vulnerability Assessment

Vulnerability Assessment IV

by Ankit Mehta on September 1, 2011

Scan Types: Central Scan or Individual Scan? It is always the question which type of scan is more effective? Both scans have pros and cons. For example Central Scan is comparatively slow while as individual scan is fast. Central scan can be invoked and monitored form one location while as individual scan should be done [...]

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Vulnerability Assessment III

by Ankit Mehta on August 25, 2011

Goal of Vulnerability Assessment Goal of network vulnerability assessment is to verify whether all deployed applications / special purpose servers are working normally without any major vulnerability/flaws or not. If we look at basic network structure we have some Antivirus , HIPS (Host based intruder prevention system), NIDS (Network based intruder detection system), NIPS(Network based [...]

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Vulnerability Assessment – ||

by Ankit Mehta on August 11, 2011

In previous blog post we understood about what is vulnerability and what is exploit. In this blog post we will look at why any organization should go for vulnerability assessment? And what is the major difference between Penetration Testing and Vulnerability assessment. We will take a look at ISO 27001 requirement for vulnerability assessment. Why [...]

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Vulnerability Assessment – Part I

by Ankit Mehta on August 10, 2011

This series blog post is going to give you some details regarding vulnerability, what is vulnerability assessment, why vulnerability assessment. It will not give you in depth idea about the vulnerability assessment but it will give you basic understating about the above mentioned topics. In computer terms vulnerability means weakness. This weakness may be due [...]

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