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2.2 Determining Security Posture
ОглавлениеThe most difficult part of the entire process of executing a bug bounty program for an enterprise is evaluating the risk and risk mitigation programs. While a reader may not be a compliance expert, or an endpoint detection and response engineer, determining which role that will have to be played in the vulnerability management process is nonnegotiable. The position that an engineer was hired to fill at the company will directly assist one in understanding what specific expectations lie ahead.
“Security posture” is a flexible term. Truthfully, it would be impossible to recommend an in-depth and thorough analysis without understanding what type of business use case is in play. Risk analysis requires visualizing how all of the parts of a security team come together, and rationally determining how it plays into application security. As a rule of thumb, it can be evaluated from the perspective of management or engineering. While there are many other aspects and subcategories of information security, a fair baseline will be starting with understanding some of the core differences in responsibility as they pertain to management and engineering: