Vulnerability assessment
New vulnerabilities, ever evolving intrusion techniques, threats from a globally wired world and recently implemented software, architecture and networks all add up to a certain amount of uncertainty.
As the costs and media exposure of intrusions increase it is becoming more important to ensure your IT assets are secure from both the outside and inside.
A well performed, comprehensive vulnerability assessment will give you the guidance to ensure the safety of your information.
What kind of computer systems and networks do you have? Are they all patched properly and up to date? Are your employees adhering to company policy? How would you find out? Through a properly planned vulnerability assessment, or "pentest", you can get the peace of mind that your networks are secure and your data is safe. A pentest involves more than just running a few security tools to identify vulnerabilities, although sadly this is what commonly happens. Using commonly available tools to test the security of your systems and networks will keep script-kiddies, the novice hackers, and crackers out but does little to make sure that a dedicated individual does not gain access to your private information.
Comprehensive vulnerability assessments involve finding vulnerabilities in networks and systems through the eyes of a disgruntled employee, an outside hacker and competitive intelligence professionals. This happens from the outside and inside of a company. A full report documents all vulnerabilities found, their importance and ways to mitigate or resolve these vulnerabilities.
In some cases only a remote pentest is required, in other situations a complete security review is needed. Whatever your needs, exo12 can proudly say that we have been able to locate important vulnerabilities in every single network we have been asked to check. Due to the sophistication of attackers there is no reason to believe we would be the only ones capable of locating these issues.
This means that there always was value for money spent and better security for a company!
