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Security Content Automation Protocol

Security Content Automation Protocol

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Security Content Automation Protocol

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- In this lesson, we're going to discuss the Security Content Automation Protocol, known as SCAP. Now, the Security Content Automation Protocol, or SCAP, describes a suite of interoperable specifications designed to standardize the formatting and naming conventions used to identify and report on the presence of software flaws, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities. The Security Content Automation Protocol is a NIST framework that outlines various accepted practices for automating vulnerability scanning by adhering to standards for scanning processes, results reporting and scoring, as well as vulnerability prioritization. SCAP is also heavily used with internal and external compliance requirements, because of all the different vulnerability scanners and tools will now support the same SCAP formatted data. This makes it really easy to transfer information from one tool to another tool, because they're all speaking the same language of SCAP. Now, there are three main languages used in…

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