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Re: Betr.: Grading System

Subject: Re: Betr.: Grading System
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:08:42 -0800
"Paul Ryan" <pryan@rogers.wave.ca> 22-11-04 21:29 >>>
 Just looking for more input here - as part of an assessment is there a
industry accepted grading system ?

Risk Assessment Values (RAVs) as described in the Open Source Security Testing 
Methodology Manual (OSSTMM - http://www.osstmm.org) provides a way to clearly 
describe the types of problems that were found.  It lets the analyst 
distinguish between identified (the application is the right version to be 
vulnerable) v.s. verified (we introduced this stimulus, got this response 
confirming that the the application is absolutely vulnerable).

The 3.0 (soon to be released) version of the OSSTMM is a significant 
improvement over the 2.1 RAV framework ... but there is still value to reading 
up on the 2.1 language.

I have found the RAV system to be a significant improvement over the 
"High/Medium/Low" industry standard language.

Robert

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