From the course: Implementing a Vulnerability Management Lifecycle
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How to verify mitigation success
From the course: Implementing a Vulnerability Management Lifecycle
How to verify mitigation success
- [Instructor] Once your mitigation plans have been implemented, there's still some work to do. You need to verify that the vulnerability has been successfully mitigated and you need to send a regular status report to management. The easiest way to verify that a vulnerability has been fixed is by rescanning the asset. If reoccurring scans and reports are setup, the next report will tell you if the vulnerability has not been mitigated. Otherwise, a technician should rescan the individual asset. Now, from time to time, there will be cases where a mitigation plan has been implemented, but the scanner is still finding the vulnerability on the asset. No matter what the cause, here are some troubleshooting steps that you can follow. First, make sure that you're looking at the correct asset in the report. It sounds silly, but I've been so overwhelmed with details at times that I found myself looking at the wrong asset.…
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