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Vulnerability Identification and Remediation
Part of Critical Security Controls · Cyber Security Professional Topic: Blue Team
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What you'll do
Learners will use Nmap and OpenVAS/Greenbone Vulnerability Scanner to confirm old vulnerable systems and to also discover new ones.
- They will perform a risk analysis of the findings and determine steps to be taken to mitigate the issues discovered
- Armed with a previously completed audit report as an example, they will fill out the necessary audit documentation to provide details on their findings and to add any suggested mitigations
- ⏱ About 60 minutes
- Counts towards: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (exam CISSP) · CompTIA Security+ (exam SY0-701)
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Roadmaps that use this lab
- CompTIA Security+ (SY0-701) — step 7: Governance, risk and compliance
- SOC Analyst — career path — step 2: Security foundation
- Advanced Security Practice — SecurityX (CAS-005) practice labs — step 4: Advanced operations
- CISSP — Certified Information Systems Security Professional — step 5: Domains 7 & 8 — operations and software security
- Penetration Tester — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- Threat Hunter — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- Digital Forensics Analyst — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- Threat Intelligence Analyst — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- Cloud Security Engineer — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- Security Engineer — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- Security Engineer — career path — step 8: Certify it
- Security Architect — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- Security Architect — career path — step 4: Architecture at scale
- Security Architect — career path — step 5: The senior certification
- Network Security Engineer — career path — step 3: Security foundation
- Security Administrator — career path — step 3: Security foundation
- Cyber Security Manager — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- Cyber Security Manager — career path — step 5: The senior technical certification
- Cyber Security Risk Manager — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- Cyber Security Compliance Officer — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- AI Security Engineer — career path — step 1: Security foundation
- AI Security Engineer — career path — step 7: The senior security certification
