Asset Attack Vectors ― Building Effective Vulnerability Management Strategies to Protect Organizations

Build an effective vulnerability management strategy to protect your organization’s assets, applications, and data.

Today’s network environments are dynamic, requiring multiple defenses to mitigate vulnerabilities and stop data breaches. In the modern enterprise, everything connected to the network is a target. Attack surfaces are rapidly expanding to include not only traditional servers and desktops, but also routers, printers, cameras, and other IOT devices. It doesn’t matter whether an organization uses LAN, WAN, wireless, or even a modern PAN—savvy criminals have more potential entry points than ever before. To stay ahead of these threats, IT and security leaders must be aware of exposures and understand their potential impact.

Asset Attack Vectors will help you build a vulnerability management program designed to work in the modern threat environment. Drawing on years of combined experience, the authors detail the latest techniques for threat analysis, risk measurement, and regulatory reporting. They also outline practical service level agreements (SLAs) for vulnerability management and patch management.

Vulnerability management needs to be more than a compliance check box; it should be the foundation of your organization’s cybersecurity strategy. Read Asset Attack Vectors to get ahead of threats and protect your organization with an effective asset protection strategy.

What You’ll Learn

• Create comprehensive assessment and risk identification policies and procedures
• Implement a complete vulnerability management workflow in nine easy steps
• Understand the implications of active, dormant, and carrier vulnerability states
• Develop, deploy, and maintain custom and commercial vulnerability management programs
• Discover the best strategies for vulnerability remediation, mitigation, and removal
• Automate credentialed scans that leverage least-privilege access principles
• Read real-world case studies that share successful strategies and reveal potential pitfalls

Who This Book Is For

New and intermediate security management professionals, auditors, and information technology staff looking to build an effective vulnerability management program and defend against asset based cyberattacks

Morey Haber has more than 20 years of IT industry experience and is the coauthor of Privileged Attack Vectors (Apress). He joined BeyondTrust in 2012 as a part of the eEye Digital Security acquisition. As the Chief Technology Officer, he currently oversees BeyondTrust technology for both vulnerability and privileged access management solutions. In 2004, Morey joined eEye as the Director of Security Engineering and was responsible for strategic business discussions and vulnerability management architectures in Fortune 500 clients. Prior to eEye, he was a Development Manager for Computer Associates, Inc. (CA), responsible for new product beta cycles and named customer accounts. Morey began his career as a Reliability and Maintainability Engineer for a government contractor building flight and training simulators. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.