From: Christine Kronberg (seeker@shalla.de)
Date: Sun Aug 06 2006 - 12:54:26 EDT
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Arkem Paul wrote:
>
> A Vulnerability Assessment should be a comprehensive look from policy and
> procedures to implementation of security in the network and should include
> such things as patch management, virus protection, user education, SOE
> hardening, infrastructure configuration, etc.
So basicly an assessment is equal to an audit? The description above
is what I usually expect from someone doing an audit.
A vulnerability assessment I tend to understand in terms of investigating
a specific application (in far more detail than a penetration test).
There are a couple of term mixed every now and again (like someone
else just stated: funny that we professionals don't come up with _one_
definition):
Audit
Security Scan
Security Assessment
Vulnerability Assessment
Penetration Test
Did I miss one?
Cheers,
Christine Kronberg.
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