Host Assessment and Risk Rating

Host assessment and Risk rating helps in identifying threats, vulnerabilities, and risks to the infrastructure, and then in quantifying the impact of the potential vulnerabilities. The return of investment must be calculated to evaluate if the cost of mitigating a risk outweighs the cost incurred if the vulnerability is exploited so that management can decide which risks to prevent, limit, or accept.

An enterprise typically has a large number of servers and network devices. It becomes difficult to find the current state of each network component so as to fix the gaps. Even if we consider only a sample set of these components, it is easier if there is a tool to help summarize the results and present them along side so it is easier to compare them. An excel spreadsheet has been developed that helps to automate this process.