Defensive Security (Blue Team) / Security foundations
Lesson 3 of 32
Threats, vulnerabilities and exploits
A vulnerability is a weakness, a threat is someone or something that could use it, and an exploit is the actual technique. Remove the vulnerability and the exploit stops working.
Key points
- Vulnerability: the weakness
- Threat: who might use it
- Exploit: how they'd use it
Quiz · +10 XP
An unpatched server is an example of a:
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