Vulnerability Assessment

It was the spring of 2011, and I was sitting behind my desk along with my colleagues in the Communications Security section of the 1st Information Operations Battalion’s Vulnerability Assessment Detachment. Our section NCOIC had just been relieved of duty for violating several Army regulations and security protocols while an individual augmentee deployed to Afghanistan, representing our organization within a special operations Task Force. While his conduct had nothing to do with the mission nor our section, his abject failure to display any integrity or adhere to the Army Values reflected very poorly on our unit and cast our office in a particularly unflattering light...not to mention the additional scrutiny from our chain of command.

Vulnerability is not weakness; vulnerability is a part of life. There is this perception of vulnerability where it is solely based around a person being weak, defenseless, or having no choice in whether one is vulnerable or not. Vulnerability is the opposite. It shows others how brave people can be by them putting themselves out there to show who they are and what they can do. The definition of vulnerability reflects its appearance in life with initially being defined as one being “capable or susceptible to being wounded or hurt,” then goes on to one being “open to moral attack, criticism, [and] temptation” (Dictionary.com, 2017). Throughout most of our lives, vulnerability is present in exposing oneself in a most personal way, regardless of the risk of emotional harm.

Companies should develop a control that requires that routine vulnerability assessment of their customer facing web sites, network infrastructure, and associated systems (such as database systems). Vulnerability assessment can help identify potential weaknesses to systems and also provide a sort of feedback to the organization’s IT department on their current operational policy and security posture. The cost of performing a routine vulnerability assessment is considerably less than that of an actual data breach.

As it applies to an IT environment, a vulnerability assessment is used to identify existing vulnerabilities giving the environment owner an awareness of what needs to be fixed (Who needs a Vulnerability Assessment, 2017). The assessment needs to be viewed for what it is, a onetime occurrence that in no way highlights all vulnerabilities. Multiple assessments of vulnerability must be conducted over time to ensure that as many possible avenues of weakness are explored, identified, and marked for improvement. As new systems are added, programs changed, or other changes to the system are made vulnerabilities might be created.

A vulnerability assessment is a risk testing process which finds, quantity and rank possible vulnerabilities to threats in as many security defects as possible in a given timeframe. Depend upon organization scope there are many way to conduct vulnerability assessment. This assessment may involve automated and manual techniques.

9. When assessing the risk impact a threat or vulnerability has on your application and infrastructure, why must you align this assessment with both a server and application software vulnerability assessment and remediation plan? Because they may coincide with each other which

There is strengths and weaknesses; threats and vulnerabilities of every organization’s security system. These issues tend to be those of the same at national and global levels; crime and criminology tend to have an impact on it.

3.1.6 Vulnerability testing: by conducting vulnerability tests allows the organization to see if the system can be penetrated and if there are any weak areas in the system. If vulnerabilities are found this allows the organization time to fix the problem.

Vulnerability identification- In this risk analysis step the association recognizes all the particular vulnerabilities that exist in its own human services data frameworks or systems. For the most part, vulnerabilities take the type of imperfections or shortcomings in framework methods or configuration. Programming bundles are accessible to help with distinguishing vulnerabilities, yet the association may likewise need to lead interviews, studies, and so forth. A few associations may utilize outside experts to help them distinguish the vulnerabilities in their information

Vulnerable. Susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm. The feeling that no one wants to feel. The feeling that everyone just wants to ignore. When I look back and talk about how I lost my accent and what that caused me, I am reliving the hurt that I felt. When I talk about all the struggles I felt, I am reliving the hurt that I felt.

Security audit is a measurable technical assessment of a system. Penetration test is a part of security audit. At the end of security audit process, there will be report-generated use for future reference and mitigation plan if

To deal with current trend of information security and sophisticated cyber threat we need the most efficient and best suited vulnerability management solution for our infrastructure as well as applications. As vulnerability management deal with people, process and technology; we need to choose each of them carefully. Technology is the pillar which is very vast and we cannot opt for multiple investment on the same. We need to be much cautious while choosing the same. One can take into account following parameters while choosing a vulnerability management solution:

a) Routine and non-routine work exercises, including those did by contractual workers and their representatives;

The assess phase is the part when the department evaluates the essential functions, prioritizing these functions and developing a hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA). For the Department of Homeland Security there are five essential missions and these are listed in order of precedence: preventing terrorism, enhancing security, securing and managing our borders, enforce immigration laws and prepare for disasters (DHS.Gov, 2015). As you can see, DHS missions are critical to the welfare of the country and it citizens that it protects. The hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) consists of three parts that develop the overall risk. They are; hazards which negatively impact DHS, impact or consequences of the hazard and the vulnerability to each hazard. The combination of these components provides the overall risk, which builds the foundation for the COOP.

A Threat and Vulnerability Assessment and Management Policy by design uses processes and technology that helps identify, assess and remediate IT threats and vulnerability. A term “threat” is any action of exploiting a vulnerability that results in