Vulnerability Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment are the same but the difference is that in Vulnerability Analysis, the attacker finds the vulnerabilities to exploit while in Vulnerability Assessment, an Ethical Hacker does the Vulnerability Analysis to help the organization to find the vulnerabilities and fix them to protect the organization from cyber security attacks.
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Vulnerability Analysis
Vulnerability Analysis is the final sub-phase of Reconnaissance. During Vulnerability Analysis, the attacker discovers the various vulnerabilities in the victim system that can be used to gain access of the target and then exploit to attain the attack objective.
Vulnerability Assessment
Vulnerability Assessment is the process of identifying, classifying and prioritizing the vulnerabilities in Computer System, Application, Software and Network. The vulnerabilities are discovered using vulnerability scanners and assessment tools that scan/assess the infrastructure and reports the weaknesses found. The vulnerabilities are categorized (generally as high, medium, low – qualitative measurement) into different levels based on…