Analyzing scan reports

- [Instructor] As a cybersecurity security analyst, … you'll probably spend a good amount of your time … analyzing reports from vulnerability scans. … One of your primary responsibilities … will be sorting through the results of these scans … and presenting information from them … to a variety of audiences. … You'll need to provide engineers, developers … and administrators with the technical details … that they need to correct issues. … You'll need to explain trends … and high-level risk ratings to business leaders … and you'll need to present security management … with a picture of how well the organization … is doing at managing risk. … As you interpret the results of any scan report, … you should first focus on five factors … that we've already discussed, … the severity of the vulnerability, … the criticality of the systems affected, … the sensitivity of the information involved, … the difficulty of remediation … and the exposure of the system … with the vulnerability. … These five factors will help you triage …