Vulnerability vs Threat vs Risk Re-visited

The importance and the difference in Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Risk can be summed up with the story of the 3 little pigs. Hear me out… turns out, this well known fable can also help us understand this important concept in Cybersecurity. Remember, in the early parts of your Cybersecurity journey, concepts > details. Just in case, you haven’t read the story here you go. (Albeit, another alternative ending) In a previous post, we talked about many topics around Cybersecurity Interviews, one being of differentiating Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Risk, as this can be a topic that comes up. Today, we will go over this in detail with the help of the aforementioned children’s story. Thanks for reading my Newsletter! Subscribe (free) to receive new posts & support my work. Going with the NIST definition, the 3 concepts can be defined as follows. Vulnerability: Weakness in an information system, or implementation that could be exploited or triggered by a threat. Threat: Any circumstance or e

The importance and the difference in Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Risk can be summed up with the story of the 3 little pigs. Hear me out… turns out, this well known fable can also help us understand this important concept in Cybersecurity. Remember, in the early parts of your Cybersecurity journey, concepts > details. Just in case, you haven’t read the story here you go. (Albeit, another alternative ending) In a previous post, we talked about many topics around Cybersecurity Interviews, one being of differentiating Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Risk, as this can be a topic that comes up. Toda