Network Security Assessment: From Vulnerability to Patch

Congratulations on reaching the final chapter of the book! We hope you have been able to use the examples we ve presented throughout in your daily battles, securing and monitoring your systems. One of the things that we have been annoyed with in the past is books written by multiple authors who do not fit together well. This book was written by three different authors, all of whom are very talented in their respective fields and all of whom have many years of experience dealing with vulnerabilities and, more important, with securing corporate networks. We took great pains to ensure that we collaborated fully when writing this book, and we hope you feel that our work has paid off in the form of a book that flows well and provides consistent advice and concepts.
If we failed to accomplish this in the preceding chapters, this chapter should tie everything together nicely and give you a concise guide to vulnerability management. Concepts, examples, and product screen shots aside, we want readers to literally tear this chapter from the book and keep it handy on their desks as a comprehensive methodology checklist for vulnerability management.
Unless you are friend or family member of one of the authors, you bought this book because you need a guide to vulnerability management. If you have ever had the pleasure of writing a book, or even online content, you are aware that it can drive even the best of authors into a...