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Last Updated: Feb 14, 2005 
Is vulnerability management a measurable and proactive process in your organization? Attend our on-demand webcast, and learn new tactics for managing the vulnerability lifecycle.
Advanced vulnerability management: Best tools and tactics for enhanced security

(20 Jan 2005)

When security administrators think about vulnerability management, they think about the cool tools at their disposal. But running scans does not make for a good vulnerability management process. Security expert George Wrenn will walk webcast attendees through the process of selecting the right vulnerability management tools and how they are best used. He'll then show how marrying those tools to a vulnerability management process/framework that includes asset assessments and evaluations and penetration testing techniques will help enterprises extend their vulnerability management program to provide better, more measurable degrees of protection.

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