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Network Vulnerability Assessment

By : Sagar Rahalkar
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Network Vulnerability Assessment

By: Sagar Rahalkar

Overview of this book

The tech world has been taken over by digitization to a very large extent, and so it’s become extremely important for an organization to actively design security mechanisms for their network infrastructures. Analyzing vulnerabilities can be one of the best ways to secure your network infrastructure. Network Vulnerability Assessment starts with network security assessment concepts, workflows, and architectures. Then, you will use open source tools to perform both active and passive network scanning. As you make your way through the chapters, you will use these scanning results to analyze and design a threat model for network security. In the concluding chapters, you will dig deeper into concepts such as IP network analysis, Microsoft Services, and mail services. You will also get to grips with various security best practices, which will help you build your network security mechanism. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to build a security framework fit for an organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the importance of effective reporting along with some useful reporting tools. We also had an overview of the various metrics that are critical in measuring the success of the vulnerability management program.

This chapter essentially concludes the book. We have come a long way starting from the absolute security basics, setting up the assessment environment, going through various phases of vulnerability assessment and then covering some important procedural aspects like vulnerability scoring, threat modelling, patching, reporting and metrics.

Thanks for reading the book and hope that it gave the essential insights into the entire vulnerability assessment process.