CYBERSECURITY CHAPTER 6

Asset Categorization

The process of placing business assets with similar characteristics into the same group.

Adjudication

The process of evaluating and ranking vulnerabilities in terms of the potential threat they may pose to the organization.

Vulnerability Mapping

The act of recognizing the connection between a vulnerability and its associated target.

Cross-Compiled Code

Code that has been compiled into an executable on one platform, but is designed to run on a different platform.

Exploit Modification

The process of changing an exploit that works against a particular vulnerability, but does not work under certain conditions.

Exploit Chaining

The act of using multiple exploits to form a larger attack.

Proof of Concept

A benign exploit developed to highlight vulnerabilities.

Credential Brute Force Attack

An attack in which the attacker tries many passwords in the hope of eventually guessing the right one.