{"id":92,"date":"2025-09-26T20:56:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edk-tech.net\/?post_type=glossary&amp;p=92"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:56:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:56:42","slug":"vulnerability-assessment","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/edk-tech.net\/?glossary=vulnerability-assessment","title":{"rendered":"vulnerability assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An assessment that seeks to identify, quantify, and prioritize the vulnerabilities in a system. <a href=\"https:\/\/edk-tech.net\/?glossary=vulnerability\"\r\n                    class=\"yaw-glossary yaw-glossary-main-link\"\r\n                    title=\"vulnerability\"\r\n                    data-bs-toggle=\"popover\"\r\n                    data-bs-html=\"true\"\r\n                    data-bs-trigger=\"hover focus\"\r\n                    data-bs-content=\"&lt;p&gt;A weakness in a component of software that can be exploited by an attacker. New code might be installed on a network device (a router, for example), and this code could cause a vulnerability. For example, the code could introduce&hellip;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\">Vulnerability<\/a> assessments can be performed for a wide variety of systems within the IT department and the network as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assessment that seeks to identify, quantify, and prioritize the vulnerabilities in a system. Vulnerability assessments can be performed for a wide variety of systems within the IT department and the network as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-92","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edk-tech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edk-tech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edk-tech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edk-tech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edk-tech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edk-tech.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}