Inside Network Security Assessment: Guarding Your IT Infrastructure

Vulnerability Management

In addition to monitoring and managing threats, assessment and management of vulnerabilities is the other major void that is commonly found post-assessment on an IT infrastructure. Conducting risk and software vulnerability assessments and management is a continuous life cycle that requires documented procedures for conducting assessments on the IT infrastructure and the IT assets that are vulnerable. Vulnerability assessments require strategies for handling software vulnerabilities throughout the organization, which accounts for a majority of the server and workstation vulnerabilities given the vulnerabilities found in operating system software for servers and workstations.

The software vulnerability window must always ...