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Threats & Attack Surfaces: Core Concepts

Cybersecurity begins by identifying assets, threats, vulnerabilities, exposure, and consequences. Attack-surface analysis guides secure design, patching, access control, network segmentation, software supply-chain management, monitoring, and prioritization of remediation work.

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Cybersecurity begins by identifying assets, threats, vulnerabilities, exposure, and consequences.

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Security failures occur when an actor can reach a vulnerable condition and convert it into an impact such as unauthorized access, data disclosure, corruption, disruption, or privilege expansion.

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