From the course: Security Testing: Vulnerability Management with Nessus
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Prioritize remediation - Nessus Tutorial
From the course: Security Testing: Vulnerability Management with Nessus
Prioritize remediation
- [Instructor] So you just ran your first vulnerability scan, and now you're staring at a report that lists hundreds of systems, each containing dozens of vulnerabilities. This can be a very overwhelming sight for the new cybersecurity analyst. How can I possibly fix all of these things? Well let me share with you one important piece of insight. You're not going to fix all of these things. There isn't enough time in the day to track down every possible vulnerability in your organization. And frankly, many of them aren't worth the effort. Let's talk about how we go about prioritizing vulnerability remediation. There are five major factors that we should take into account when we're developing our remediation priority list. First, how critical is the system that contains the vulnerability? Is this a crucial web server that runs the core of our business? Or is it a test server, that serves a small group of developers who use it infrequently? The more crucial a system, the more important…
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