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Vulnerability Management in Cybersecurity: The Basics

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Learn the basics of vulnerability management. Discover why vulnerabilities exist as well as how to manage them from start to finish.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Managing vulnerabilities
  • The key elements of VM: DARC
1. Detect
  • What is a vulnerability?
  • Why do vulnerabilities exist?
  • Vulnerability sources
  • Introduction to vulnerability scanning
  • Reporting
2. Assess the Risk
  • Handling all those vulnerabilities
  • CVSS: Industry standard severity algorithm
  • CVSS: Modifying factors
  • Concern: Regulatory requirements
  • Concern: Exposure
  • Risk and compensating controls
3. Resolve and Confirm
  • Introduction to patch and config management tools
  • Vetting false positives
  • Confirm remediation
4. Putting It Together
  • Review DARC
  • Building a program
Conclusion
  • A constant effort

Taught by

Lora Vaughn

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4.7 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 872 ratings

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