Vulnerability Assessment

Operating systems, applications, networks...these are all built by people.  As long as these will be built by people, they will have mistakes such as poor logic, misconfigurations, improper access control, bad guardrails, weak encryption, old libraries, bad resource management, and the list goes on and on.  These mistakes often lead to vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to achieve all sorts of malicious ends.

Vulnerability assessments are a vital security capability as they can help reveal these vulnerabilities so that organization is able to address them accordingly.  These are often done by leveraging automated tools like vulnerability scanners.