Discovery
A special type of vulnerability management process focuses on finding and eliminating zero-day weaknesses. This unknown vulnerability management lifecycle is a security and quality assurance process that aims to ensure the security and robustness of both in-house and third party software products by finding and fixing unknown (zero-day) vulnerabilities. The unknown vulnerability management process consists of four phases: analyze, test, report and mitigate.
- Analyze: this phase focuses on attack surface analysis
- Test: this phase focuses on fuzz testing the identified attack vectors
- Report: this phase focuses on reporting of the found issues to developers
- Mitigate: this phase looks at protective measures explained below
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