From the course: Developing Secure Software (2015)

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Vulnerability management tools

Vulnerability management tools

From the course: Developing Secure Software (2015)

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Vulnerability management tools

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- [Instructor] One of the most widely adopted commercial vulnerability management tools is Nessus. It's also branded as a vulnerability assessment tool because it's essential to understand what the vulnerabilities are before starting to manage them, which is precisely what Nessus does. After discovering vulnerabilities, the next step is sorting them according to their priority. Here, we have a Nessus graphical user interface or GUI in action. You can see how it differentiates detected vulnerabilities by their severities ranging from info to critical. The red critical label indicates the vulnerabilities that require immediate attention. Nessus uses the Common Vulnerability Scoring System or CVSS to decide the severity of each vulnerability identified. CVSS is an industry standard for assessing the seriousness of cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams or FIRST is the current custodian of…

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