Vulnerability Assessment Report: System Analysis and Risks

This report provides a comprehensive vulnerability assessment of a system, detailing the process of identifying and evaluating potential weaknesses. It covers the steps involved, including initial assessment, defining a system baseline, and vulnerability scanning. The report emphasizes the importance of identifying assets and risks, performing business impact analysis, and using appropriate scanning policies. Furthermore, it highlights the creation of a detailed report outlining vulnerabilities and providing recommendations for system improvement. The assessment aims to identify security loopholes before they can be exploited, utilizing techniques such as intrusion detection systems and considering the context of the client-industry. References include research on cyber and physical security vulnerability assessments and penetration testing as a cyber defense technology. The report serves as a valuable resource for understanding and mitigating system vulnerabilities.

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Vulnerability assessment in the system:
Vulnerability assessment in the system defines the process of identifying and giving
priority of the vulnerability in the system. The assessment of the vulnerability includes
assessment of the information technology, supply of the energy, transportation and the
communication system in the system. The assessment can be done on different organization
type and size (Fang et al., 2018). Vulnerability assessment is almost similar to the assessment
of the risks assessment.
The main objective of the vulnerability assessment is to identify the security
loopholes in the system before someone can exploit the loopholes. One of the techniques for
the assessment of the vulnerabilities is to develop the intrusion detection system to determine
how the technique works.
The assessment of the vulnerability is dependent between the comparisons of different
solutions, however, the focus is given on a single output. The output is the report that
identifies all the vulnerabilities present in the system.
Steps for conducting the assessment:
There are different vulnerability assessments. However the general steps for the
vulnerability assessment is mentioned below;
1. Initial assessment: In this stage the identification of the assets and risks present in the
system are evaluated. The identification of the risks along with the analysis and the
business impact analysis are done in this stage.
2. Definition of the system baseline: In this stage the gathering of the information
regarding the system is done so that the vulnerability assessment can be done in a
proper way.

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3. Scanning of the vulnerability: the right policy is needed to be used for the scanning
of the vulnerabilities in order to get the desired result (DeSmit et al.,2016). The
performance of the scan is dependent on the client-industry context. In this stage the
scanning of the firewall, aggressive scan full scan of the system can be done.
4. Creation of the report regarding the vulnerability assessments: After the
identification of the vulnerabilities report is needed to be created stating those
vulnerabilities. Apart from that the importance in the recommendation part is needed
to be given in the report for the further improvement of the system.

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References
Ali, B., & Awad, A. (2018). Cyber and physical security vulnerability assessment for IoT-
based smart homes. Sensors, 18(3), 817.
Goel, J. N., & Mehtre, B. M. (2015). Vulnerability assessment & penetration testing as a
cyber defence technology. Procedia Computer Science, 57, 710-715.