Vulnerability Research and Tools
`An important part of your toolkit as an ethical hacker will be the information gathered from vulnerability research. This process involves searching for and uncovering vulnerabilities in a system and determining their nature. Additionally, the research seeks to classify each vulnerability as high, medium, or low. You or other security personnel can use this research to keep up to date on the latest weaknesses involving software, hardware, and environments.
The benefit of having this information is that an administrator or other personnel could use this information to position defenses. Additionally, the information may show where to place new resources or be used to plan monitoring.
Vulnerability research is not the same as ethical hacking in that it passively uncovers security issues whereas the process of ethical hacking actively looks for the vulnerabilities.
