The Best Damn IT Security Management Book Period

Chapter 7. Vulnerability Management

Solutions in this chapter

• The Vulnerability Management Plan

• The Six Stages of Vulnerability Management

• Governance (What the Auditors Want to Know)

• Measuring the Performance of a Vulnerability Management Program

• Common Problems with Vulnerability Management

  Summary

Introduction

Back in the good old days, the typical approach to vulnerability management was to have the security group identify threats and then “toss” them to information technology (IT) administrators for remediation. As the number of security threats mounted over the years, this casual approach was no longer viable. In previous chapters, we discussed vulnerability ...