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  2. Information technology security assessment - Wikipedia

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    The goal of a security assessment (also known as a security audit, security review, or network assessment [1]), is to ensure that necessary security controls are integrated into the design and implementation of a project. A properly completed security assessment should provide documentation outlining any security gaps between a project design ...

  3. Network security - Wikipedia

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    Network security are security controls, policies, processes and practices adopted to prevent, detect and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of a computer network and network-accessible resources. [1] Network security involves the authorization of access to data in a network, which is controlled by the network ...

  4. Vulnerability assessment (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Vulnerability assessment is a process of defining, identifying and classifying the security holes in information technology systems. An attacker can exploit a vulnerability to violate the security of a system. Some known vulnerabilities are Authentication Vulnerability, Authorization Vulnerability and Input Validation Vulnerability.

  5. Penetration test - Wikipedia

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    132-45A Penetration Testing [24] is security testing in which service assessors mimic real-world attacks to identify methods for circumventing the security features of an application, system, or network. HACS Penetration Testing Services typically strategically test the effectiveness of the organization's preventive and detective security ...

  6. Information security audit - Wikipedia

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    Network security is achieved by various tools including firewalls and proxy servers, encryption, logical security and access controls, anti-virus software, and auditing systems such as log management. Firewalls are a very basic part of network security. They are often placed between the private local network and the internet.

  7. Network access control - Wikipedia

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    Network access control (NAC) is an approach to computer security that attempts to unify endpoint security technology (such as antivirus, host intrusion prevention, and vulnerability assessment), user or system authentication and network security enforcement.

  8. Security controls - Wikipedia

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    The catalog of minimum security controls is found in NIST Special Publication SP 800-53. FIPS 200 identifies 17 broad control families: AC Access Control; AT Awareness and Training; AU Audit and Accountability; CA Security Assessment and Authorization (historical abbreviation) CM Configuration Management; CP Contingency Planning

  9. List of security assessment tools - Wikipedia

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    Tenable Network Security: Proprietary; GPL (2.2.11 and earlier) Vulnerability scanner: Nmap: terminal application GPL v2: computer security, network management: Free OpenVAS: GPL: Nikto Web Scanner: GPL: SQLmap: Wireshark: Riverbed Technology (sponsor) desktop application GPL2: Network sniffing, traffic analysis