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What is a network vulnerability assessment?

What is a network vulnerability assessment?

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What is a network vulnerability assessment?

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- Network vulnerability assessment is a way to discover potential security weaknesses in a computer network. There are different types of network vulnerabilities. One is vulnerable configurations, such as open ports. Another type is known software vulnerabilities for both operating systems and applications. The third type is vulnerabilities associated with compliance to policies and standards. This one is more human factor oriented rather than technical. For more technical vulnerabilities, especially those related to security misconfigurations, please check out this national vulnerability database by NIST, or National Institute of Standards and Technology. A lot of vulnerability assessment tools use the common configuration enumeration, or CCE, provided by NIST. The process of removing security vulnerabilities as much as possible is referred to as system or network hardening. The hardening can be done technically by…

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