From the course: Security Testing: Vulnerability Management with Nessus
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Barriers to vulnerability remediation - Nessus Tutorial
From the course: Security Testing: Vulnerability Management with Nessus
Barriers to vulnerability remediation
- As you work your way through the vulnerability remediation workflow, you're going to encounter inhibitors to remediation. You'll come across people, who for a variety of reasons, think that addressing vulnerabilities is not in the organization's best interests. Let's talk about some of the people that you might encounter during your remediation efforts and discuss ways that you can address the issues that they raise in a matter that addresses their objections but still resolves the vulnerability. Meet Grumpy Gus. Gus is a System Engineer who has a really cranky attitude. So much so that no one on the security team really wants to talk to him because they know that Gus will argue with everything they say. But Gus is also highly skilled. He's a very knowledgeable engineer and his primary concern is keeping his systems up and running. When you bring Gus a vulnerability, he might grumble that the vulnerability isn't real and that applying the suggested fix would cause technical issues…
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