Understanding cybersecurity vulnerabilities and threats

All systems, processes, infrastructures, and environments have vulnerabilities. Those vulnerabilities are normally caused by design flaws, bugs, bad implementations, a lack of updates, and many other causes that attackers (or threat agents) will leverage in order to gain access to your systems and/or cause disruption.

The question is not whether a system has vulnerabilities, but who will discover them first?

Performing a vulnerability assessment

As a cybersecurity expert, you must be on the constant search for new vulnerabilities in order to keep your infrastructure secure.

The process of performing this search is called vulnerability assessment.

There are two main ways to do it. The first is to use offensive techniques (such as penetration testing), and the second one is more like a defensive technique based on the identification of known vulnerabilities on your infrastructure by searching for all the vulnerabilities...