The identification and assessment of the security weak points of an infrastructure, organisation or location.
Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is the process in an enterprise analyzing the risk associated with vulnerability scan results. See also Vulnerability Management (VM) and vulnerability scan, vulnerability scanning
Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying and quantifying vulnerabilities in a system. The system being studied could be a physical facility like a nuclear power plant, a computer system, or a larger system (for example the communications infrastructure or water infrastructure of a region).