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Vulnerability Assessment Training: Protecting Your Organisation
Level: Intermediate
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4.75/5 Based on 150 Reviews
In this Vulnerability Assessment training course, you learn how to create a network security vulnerability assessment checklist by exposing infrastructure, server, and desktop vulnerabilities, create and interpret reports, configure vulnerability scanners, detect points of exposure, and ultimately prevent network exploitation.
To minimise costly security breaches, organisations need to evaluate the risk in their enterprise from an array of vulnerabilities. Attend this 4-day course and learn to minimise your organization's exposure to security breaches.
Key Features of this Vulnerability Assessment Training:
- After-course instructor coaching benefit
- Learning Tree end-of-course exam included
You Will Learn How To:
- Detect and respond to vulnerabilities, and minimise exposure to security breaches
- Employ real-world exploits and evaluate their effect on your systems
- Configure vulnerability scanners to identify weaknesses
- Analyse the results of vulnerability scans
- Establish an efficient strategy for vulnerability management
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- 4-day instructor-led training course
- One-on-one after course instructor coaching
- Earn 23 CompTIA CEUs
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Requirements
- Basic understanding of network security and security issues at the level of:
- You should have an understand of:
- TCP/IP networking
- Network security goals and concerns
- The roles of firewalls and intrusion detection systems
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Certification Preparation
- This course covers multiple domains on the (ISC)2 CISSP certification exam
- If you are interested in achieving the CISSP certification, see CISSP Training and Certification Exam Preparation • Course 2058
Vulnerability Assessment Course Outline
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Fundamentals
Introduction
- Defining vulnerability, exploit, threat and risk
- Creating a vulnerability report
- Conducting an initial scan
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) list
Scanning and exploits
- Vulnerability detection methods
- Types of scanners
- Port scanning and OS fingerprinting
- Enumerating targets to test information leakage
- Types of exploits: worm, spyware, backdoor, rootkits, Denial of Service (DoS)
- Deploying exploit frameworks
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Analysing Vulnerabilities and Exploits
Uncovering infrastructure vulnerabilities
- Uncovering switch weaknesses
- Vulnerabilities in infrastructure support servers
- Network management tool attacks
Attacks against analyzers and IDS
- Identifying Snort IDS bypass attacks
- Corrupting memory and causing Denial of Service
Exposing server vulnerabilities
- Scanning servers: assessing vulnerabilities on your network
- Uploading rogue scripts and file inclusion
- Catching input validation errors
- Performing buffer overflow attacks
- SQL injection
- Cross–Site Scripting (XSS) and cookie theft
Revealing desktop vulnerabilities
- Scanning for desktop vulnerabilities
- Client buffer overflows
- Silent downloading: spyware and adware
- Identifying design errors
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Configuring Scanners and Generating Reports
Implementing scanner operations and configuration
- Choosing credentials, ports and dangerous tests
- Preventing false negatives
- Creating custom vulnerability tests
- Customising Nessus scans
- Handling false positives
Creating and interpreting reports
- Filtering and customising reports
- Interpreting complex reports
- Contrasting the results of different scanners
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Assessing Risks in a Changing Environment
Researching alert information
- Using the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to find relevant vulnerability and patch information
- Evaluating and investigating security alerts and advisories
- Employing the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
Identifying factors that affect risk
- Evaluating the impact of a successful attack
- Determining vulnerability frequency
- Calculating vulnerability severity
- Weighing important risk factors
- Performing a risk assessment
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Managing Vulnerabilities
The vulnerability management cycle
- Standardising scanning with Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL)
- Patch and configuration management
- Analysing the vulnerability management process
Vulnerability controversies
- Rewards for vulnerability discovery
- Markets for bugs and exploits
- Challenge programs
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Vulnerability Assessment Training FAQs
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What is vulnerability assessment?
The process of defining, identifying, classifying and prioritising what vulnerabilities are in your system.
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What is the purpose of a vulnerability assessment?
The purpose of this assessment is to find out what vulnerabilities may be within your system in time to fix them.
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What is the difference between vulnerability assessment and penetration testing?
A vulnerability assessment scans for known vulnerabilities, while a penetration test tries to actively exploit and fix the weaknesses.
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Can I learn vulnerability assessment online?
Yes! We know your busy work schedule may prevent you from getting to one of our classrooms which is why we offer convenient online training to meet your needs wherever you want. This course is available in class and live online.
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