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Vulnerability Management: Assessing the Risks with CVSS v3.1

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Prioritize the vulnerabilities in your environment using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Learn how to apply CVSS scores to effectively assess risk.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to this course
  • Case study: Red30 technology
1. Vulnerability Basics
  • Vulnerability risk assessment
  • Vulnerability types and their causes
  • Methods for fixing vulnerabilities
  • Common terms in vulnerability management
2. CVSS Overview
  • Intro to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
  • Core elements of CVSS v3.1
  • CVSS v3.1 formula
  • Making sense of the CVSS vector string
3. Base Metric Group
  • The CVSS base metric group
  • The attack vector metric
  • How attack complexity affects risk
  • The effects of the privileges required metric on risk
  • User interaction and vulnerability risk
  • Confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact metrics
  • Security scope in CVSS
  • Challenge
  • Solution
4. Temporal Metrics Group
  • How exploit code maturity affects risk
  • How remediation level affects risk
  • How report confidence affects risk
5. Environment Metrics Group
  • Confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirement
  • Modified base metrics in CVSS
6. Putting CVSS into Practice
  • Using CVSS scores
  • CVSS severity rating scale
  • Using CVSS scoring in the enterprise
  • Remediating vulnerabilities
  • Accepting vulnerability risks
  • Challenge
  • Solution
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Lora Vaughn

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