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Vulnerability Management Grows Up

June 29th, 2007 by chitchcock Posted in Approved Scanning Vendor

scan.jpgFrom Dark Reading:

JUNE 27, 2007 | Vulnerability management isn’t just about slapping on the latest patches anymore.

That’s because a vulnerability isn’t always just a publicly identified bug by Microsoft or CERT. “Vulnerabilities can be problems in configurations, missing patches, software that was loaded on a machine that shouldn’t be there, or security mechanisms that are not loaded or up-to-date and should be,” says Eric Maiwald, senior analyst with the Burton Group and author of two vulnerability management reports for Burton, which were published late last week…[more]

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