Principles of Information Security
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Vulnerability assessment and remediation domain:
Vulnerability assessment is a process to identify the document vulnerabilities in physical and logical way. This system can be technical and non-technical. This assessment used to following accomplishments they are:
- This assessment is used to define the vulnerabilities in system or other internal and public networks.
- Ensuring the proper management system for remediation of risk.
- Collect the report for vulnerability status...
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