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A primer on vulnerability detection, remediation and management

By Jon Collins, sponsored by Qualys
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Published January 2009

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This is one of a series of papers from The Register, produced by the analysts at Freeform Dynamics.

Vulnerability management is largely about ‘divide and conquer’ - identifying the critical systems that should be treated, assessing them, prioritising the results and dealing with them in some way.

Here we look at vulnerability management and provide a straightforward primer to answer the following questions:

  • What is it?
  • Why should you be thinking about it?
  • What can you do about it?
  • What else should you consider?
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