A successful cybersecurity approach is essential in an era where companies are moving their most critical services into the cyber world. Because there are many vulnerabilities in the cyber world today via which hackers might carry out attacks on companies. Therefore, companies should conduct a vulnerability analysis to identify and resolve the vulnerabilities before the hackers attack. It should be performed on a frequent basis because IT environments are rapidly evolving, and new threats are regularly emerging.

What is Vulnerability Analysis?

Vulnerability analysis, often referred to as vulnerability assessment, is a systematic process for identifying, categorizing, and prioritizing potential and existing security vulnerabilities in an organization’s IT systems, network infrastructure, database, servers, and web applications. It also helps to remediate or mitigate the identified vulnerabilities or loopholes.