What you will learn
What is the difference between doing a vulnerability assessment for a fitness tracker and an internet-connected pacemaker? Quite significant! Simple scanning may be sufficient in some cases, but others require a deeper look. In this path, you’ll learn a variety of ways to discover vulnerabilities, classify and prioritize vulnerabilities based on real-world criticality measures, define the actual risk of the vulnerabilities, create and execute an actionable remediation plan, and document and maintain a vulnerability assessment. Finally, you’ll learn some key security controls that don’t target specific vulnerabilities, but enhance the overall security of your system.
Syllabus
Vulnerability Management in a Nutshell
Course — 00:32:18
K0006, K0314
This course covers the basics of vulnerability assessment, including definitions, scope, policy and process.
Vulnerability Discovery
Course — 01:46:54
K0013, K0272, K0290, K0339
This course guides you through five different type of security tools for discovering vulnerabilities in various environments.
Vulnerability Classification
Course — 00:39:04
K0005, K0040, K0402, K0612
This course covers three main topics: false positives, standardized vulnerabilities and weakness classification systems and threat-based vulnerability/weakness classification.
Prioritization and Risk Assessment
Course — 01:10:56
K0002, K0013, K0054, K0149, K0165, K0344, K0402, K0469, K0475, S0219
This course covers how to classify and prioritize vulnerabilities based on real-world criticality measures and how to define the true risk of the vulnerabilities for a specific environment.
Vulnerability Assessment Documentation and Maintenance
Course — 00:42:37
K0013, K0054, K0165
This course covers how to create comprehensive, clear and easy-to-understand vulnerability assessment documentation, and how to go about keeping the vulnerability findings and scoring current.
Remediation and Mitigation
Course — 00:55:19
K0002, K0205, K0275, K0440, K0527, K0531
In this course, we will cover a wide range of topics about the vulnerability remediation and mitigation process, including the most common remediations and mitigations and strategies for deployment of security measures.
Key Security Controls
Course — 01:19:27
K0033, K0049, K0065, K0145, K0324, K0440, K0561
This course covers the top most effective security controls to reduce the overall risk of systems and networks. Recommendation of such controls is a perfect add-on for any vulnerability assessment.
Vulnerability Assessment Skill Assessment
Assessment — 42 questions — 00:21:00
Meet the author
Mitko Katsev has over a decade of work experience in cybersecurity, systems architecture, and software development. His full-service security consultancy company ArmadilCo specializes in helping startups to top fortune 500 medical device manufacturers build and maintain secure systems.
Mitko has studied system programming and computer engineering and has completed several InfoSec/AppSec trainings and certifications, including SANS Defensible Security Architecture and Engineering (SEC530), SANS Defending Against Adversaries – Purple Team Tactics (SEC599), multiple Microsoft security development lifecycle (SDL) trainings and more.
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How to claim CPEs
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