Vulnerability Intelligence from SANS

A Vulnerability Intelligence program should be a key component of any sound network security strategy. It should dovetail with a Vulnerability Assessment process and a patching/remediation process. While a Vulnerability Assessment process will tell you what needs to be patched, Vulnerability Intelligence should tell you what needs to be patched first and what new patches need to be evaluated.

Like any intelligence process, be it on the battlefield in the form of Military Intelligence, or in the marketplace under the guise of Competitive Intelligence, Vulnerability Intelligence follows the same cycle:

Planning and Direction
Collection
Analysis
Dissemination

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