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Security+ (SY0-701): Lesson 8: Explain Vulnerability Management Part 5

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This deck covers key concepts from Lesson 8 of the Security+ (SY0-701) course, focusing on vulnerability management, including prioritization, classification, exposure factors, and remediation practices.

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How can false negatives be avoided?

By running repeat scans periodically and employing scanners from different vendors.
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How can false negatives be avoided?
By running repeat scans periodically and employing scanners from different vendors.
How does vulnerability analysis support 'prioritization' of an organizations security strategy?
By identifying the most critical vulnerabilities that pose the most significant risk to an organization helps an organization focus limited resources ...
What is 'prioritization' in an organizations security strategy based on?
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS); Factors such as the vulnerability severity, the ease of exploitation, and the potential impact of an attac...
How does vulnerability analysis support the 'classification' of an organizations security strategy?
Categorizing vulnerabilities based on their characteristics, to help clarify the scope and nature of an organization's threats.
Define 'Exposure factor (EF)'
In risk calculation, represents the extent to which an asset is susceptible to being compromised or impacted by a specific vulnerability.
How does vulnerability analysis support the 'Exposure Factor' of an organizations security strategy?
Helps assess the potential impact or loss that could occur if the vulnerability is exploited.
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Security+ (SY0-701): Lesson 8: Explain Vulnerability Management Part 5
TermDefinition
How can false negatives be avoided?
By running repeat scans periodically and employing scanners from different vendors.
How does vulnerability analysis support 'prioritization' of an organizations security strategy?
By identifying the most critical vulnerabilities that pose the most significant risk to an organization helps an organization focus limited resources on addressing the most significant threats first.
What is 'prioritization' in an organizations security strategy based on?
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS); Factors such as the vulnerability severity, the ease of exploitation, and the potential impact of an attack.
How does vulnerability analysis support the 'classification' of an organizations security strategy?
Categorizing vulnerabilities based on their characteristics, to help clarify the scope and nature of an organization's threats.
Define 'Exposure factor (EF)'
In risk calculation, represents the extent to which an asset is susceptible to being compromised or impacted by a specific vulnerability.
How does vulnerability analysis support the 'Exposure Factor' of an organizations security strategy?
Helps assess the potential impact or loss that could occur if the vulnerability is exploited.
What is the 'Exposure Factor' in an organizations security strategy based on?
The likelihood of a vulnerability being exploited and directly impact its overall risk level; Weak authentication mechanisms, inadequate network segmentation, or insufficient access control methods.
Define 'vulnerability impact'
The potential organizational impact of vulnerabilities; Financial loss, reputational damage, operational disruption, or regulatory penalties.
Define the role of 'vulnerability impact' in an organizations security strategy
Crucial for making informed decisions about risk mitigation and disaster recovery.
Define an 'environmental variables'
The organization's IT infrastructure and assets; Hardware, software, networks, and systems in use.
What are external environmental variables?
External threat landscape based on industry; Regulatory and compliance.
Define 'Risk tolerance'
The level of risk an organization is willing to accept.
What does vulnerability response and remediation practices encompass?
Patching, insurance, segmentation, compensating controls, exceptions, and exemptions.
What are typical forms of compensating controls?
Additional monitoring, secondary authentication mechanisms, or enhanced encryption.
Define 'remediation validation' and its purpose
Ensures that the remediation actions have been implemented correctly and function as intended.
When examining the website for potential XSS and SQLi vulnerabilities, what are common indicators a cybersecurity analyst should look for?
Input fields that do not sanitize user input and error messages that disclose database information.
What issue poses the highest risk related to unauthorized data access in cloud-hosted applications?
Misconfigured cloud storage access controls.
Based on common operating system vulnerabilities what has insufficient or missing data validation mechanisms that lead to the system interpreting unintended command execution?
Buffer overflow.
When leveraging dependency analysis and SBOM tools in a software development environment, which key factors should the security team prioritize to address potential vulnerabilities more efficiently?
Recognizing outdated software dependencies and Identifying undisclosed open-source components.