What Is Vulnerability Testing In Cyber Security? Vulnerability testing enables us to understand the potential methods of an attack. At Bobcares, with our Server Management Services, we can handle your server issues.

What Is Vulnerability Testing In Cyber Security?

Vulnerability testing is the process of assessing an app’s security. The process identifies, diagnoses, and prioritizes application flaws. It is very important to understand the method by which an attack occurs to prevent it from happening. Some of them are as follows:

• OS-related: These are the issues we can find inside the OS. Attackers exploit these issues to start an attack.
• Network-related: Hardware or software problems that make a network vulnerable to outside attacks.
• Process-related: Some processes can also result in problems that may act as a vulnerability.
• Human-related: This includes someone unintentionally providing details to a third party or downloading malware by clicking on a malicious file.

Vulnerability Testing Procedure

Vulnerability scanning service includes the below steps:

1. Determining the aim of the testing.
    
2. Collecting details of systems including IT environment, networks, IP addresses, OS, etc.
    
3. Finding out security issues and avoiding false positives.
    
4. Analyze, rank, and report the found vulnerabilities.
    
5. Based on the ranking report, remediation allows security policies and procedures, deploying new security tools, and fixing the most serious defects in software.
    

Types Of Vulnerability Scanning

It can be divided into the following:

1. App Scan: Websites should be tested to find known software flaws and incorrect network or web application setups.

2. DB Scan: This scan detects the DB’s soft spots to guard against malicious assaults.

3. Network Scan: On wired or wireless networks, it identifies potential network security breaches and weak points in systems. Network-based scanners can identify unidentified exterior points on a network, such as unauthorized remote access servers, and connections to unsecured networks of business partners. They also find unknown or illegal devices and systems on a network.

4. Wireless Scan: This method confirms a network is securely set up by identifying problematic access points.

5. Host-based Scan: By identifying vulnerabilities in servers, workstations, or other network hosts, this scanning also gives users more insight into the configuration options and patch history of the systems it has scanned.

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Conclusion

The article provides a brief insight into the definition of vulnerability testing along with discussing some of the important vulnerability scans suggested by our Support team.