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Vulnerability Assessments
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ALSO CALLED: Network Vulnerability Assessment, Network Vulnerability, Security Vulnerabilities, Network Security Vulnerabilities, Vulnerabilities, Host Vulnerability Assessment, and Internet Security Vulnerabilities
DEFINITION: An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. To test a security system, ethical hackers use the same methods as their less principled counterparts, but report problems
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Sophos Threat Detection Test
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SOFTWARE DEMO:
Use the Sophos Threat Detection Test to quickly perform a scan and find any viruses, spyware, adware or zero-day threats that might have by-passed your existing protection
Posted: 30 Aug 2007 | Published: 30 Aug 2007
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Foundstone Product Demo
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PRODUCT DEMO:Foundstone Enterprise intelligently manages risk by balancing asset value, vulnerability severity and threat criticality. Posted: 29 Jun 2004 | Published: 01 Jun 2004
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Do You Know Your Total Cost of Risk? Or How to Reduce It?
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SOFTWARE DEMO:Proprietary decision support software application tool is known as ERIC, or Enterprise Risk Integration Console. Posted: 29 Apr 2004 | Published: 28 Apr 2004
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GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner 3
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TRIAL SOFTWARE:GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) checks your network for all potential methods that a hacker might use to attack your network. Posted: 17 Nov 2003 | Published: 01 Nov 2003
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VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS DEFINITION (continued): … instead of taking advantage of them. Ethical hacking is also known as penetration testing, intrusion testing, and red teaming. An ethical hacker is sometimes called a white hat, a term that comes from old Western movies, where the "good guy" wore a white hat and the "bad guy" wore a black hat. One of the first examples of ethical hackers at work was in the 1970s, when the United States government used groups of experts called red teams to hack its own …
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