4.1 Explain the importance of vulnerability management reporting and communication

• Vulnerability management
reporting

  • Vulnerabilities
  • Affected hosts
  • Risk score
  • Mitigation
  • Recurrence
  • Prioritization
    • Compliance reports
    • Action plans
  • Configuration management
  • Patching
  • Compensating controls
  • Awareness, education, and
    training
  • Changing business requirements
    • Inhibitors to remediation
  • Memorandum of understanding
    (MOU)
  • Service-level agreement (SLA)
  • Organizational governance
  • Business process interruption
  • Degrading functionality
  • Legacy systems
  • Proprietary systems
    • Metrics and key performance
    indicators (KPIs)
  • Trends
  • Top 10
  • Critical vulnerabilities and
    zero-days
  • SLOs
    • Stakeholder identification
    and communication