Summary
This chapter provided you with essential skills for effectively managing vulnerabilities, implementing security controls, and reducing organizational risk. You developed an understanding of risk management frameworks, risk identification techniques, and analysis methods, including qualitative and quantitative approaches. Through risk evaluation and response strategies, you learned how to assess and address threats by accepting, transferring, avoiding, or mitigating risks.
In exploring security controls, you gained insight into the different control types, managerial, operational, and technical, and their roles in preventing, detecting, and responding to security incidents. You also built proficiency in patching and configuration management by learning key processes such as testing, implementation, rollback, and validation to ensure secure system updates.
Attack surface management introduced you to various discovery techniques, testing methods, and mitigation strategies...
