You ran a scan. You got a list of vulnerabilities. Now what? The gap between finding something and fixing it is where most organizations fail. Raw scan data is just noise until you turn it into actionable intelligence.

False positives are findings that the scanner reports but that aren’t actually exploitable or relevant. You need to validate. For each finding, ask yourself: Is this service actually running and exposed?

Part of the free Intro to Cyber course by Cover6 Solutions.