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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)

Importance of reporting

Vulnerability assessments and penetration tests are lengthy processes. They need a lot of time, effort, and dedication in order to complete. However, all the time and effort spent won't be of any use unless the findings of the assessment are presented in a meaningful way.

It's quite common that security, in general, is considered as an overhead. So there would be very less number of people in the organization who would be actually interested in knowing the results of the security assessment. However, it is essential to present the findings in the most crisp and clear way so that they appear to be interesting as well as actionable to a wider audience within the organization.

Reporting is also critical from the audit perspective. Most organizations undergo some kind of audit, internal or external, each year. These audits demand security assessment...