Vulnerability assessment is the best solution for the occurring problems in your system. The best vulnerability assessment solution can find out the types of flaws in your system. For the best output of the solution, it has to follow a patterned workflow. The solution has its own methodology to provide outstanding results. Here is a glimpse of its methodology-

1. Vulnerability identification (testing)

The objective of this phase is to draft an inclusive list of an application’s vulnerabilities. The applications’, servers and other systems’ security is tested by the security analysts. Both automated tools and manual tests are performed to do so. In order to identify security vulnerabilities, analysts often rely on vulnerability repositories, vendor vulnerability alerts, asset management systems, and threat intelligence feeds.

2. Vulnerability analysis

The objective of this phase is to identify the source and root cause of the vulnerabilities identified in phase one. It involves the identification of system components responsible for each vulnerability and the root cause of the vulnerability.

3. Risk assessment

The objective of this step is the ranking of vulnerabilities by involving security analysts assigning a rank or severity score to each vulnerability, based on such factors as:

• Which systems are affected?

• What data is at risk.

• Which business functions are at risk.

• Ease of attack or compromise.

• The harshness of an attack.

• Potential damage as a result of the vulnerability.

Related tools and plug-ins on the vulnerability assessment platform:

• CMS web scan (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, general CMS, etc.)

• Quick scan

• Most common ports best scan (i.e., 65,535 ports)

• Firewall scan

• Stealth scan

• Aggressive scan

• Full scan, exploits and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

4. Remediation

The objective of this phase is the closing of security gaps. It is usually a joint effort of security staff, development teams, and operations teams that decide the most effective way to fix or minimize that vulnerability.

Specific remediation steps might include:

a. Introduction of new security procedures, measures or tools.

b. The updating of operational or configuration changes.

c. Development and implementation of a vulnerability patch.