From the course: Vulnerability Management in Cybersecurity: The Basics
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What is a vulnerability?
From the course: Vulnerability Management in Cybersecurity: The Basics
What is a vulnerability?
- [Presenter] Before diving into vulnerability management, we need to define what a vulnerability is in the context of computer systems. Vulnerability is defined as the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. My definition of vulnerability as it relates to computer systems is a weakness that individually or in conjunction with others could allow an attacker to perform unauthorized actions on a system or network. That's still a difficult concept to visualize since most of us don't really have a good picture of what a computer is and what its weaknesses are, at least not one that makes sense. So instead, I'll use an analogy. Let's think about house. Houses, like computers, have several mechanisms or security controls to protect its contents and inhabitants. Because we don't want a random stranger off the street to just walk into our homes, we…
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