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Basic: Vulnerability Assessment
Added: Saturday, 9 April 2005
Publisher: Remote Assessment
Category: Network Security

This document shall serve as an introduction to the subject of security vulnerability assessments. It will focus primarily on vulnerability assessments performed from an external / remote location (like that of an actual hacking attack).

In many situations the terms risk assessment and penetration test may be used interchangeably with vulnerability assessment.

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