What are Threats, Attacks, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures?
What’s the difference between software threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities? While working on Improving Web Application security, we found a lot of confusion, so we came up with a simple way to quickly communicate the terms. Threats, Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures Defined Threat – A negative effect or undesired event. A potential occurrence, often best described …
