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Vulnerability & Penetration Testing: Do you know your exposures?

Written by Kelser | May 19, 2015

In today’s world of IT – it’s not a matter of “if” your systems and data will be compromised, it’s when and how bad will it be “when” it occurs.  Attacks can originate from inside or outside of your organization so “hopefully” you’re prepared to deal with the damage that an attack will have on your firms reputation.Unfortunately, “hope” is not the best strategy when you have customer and employee data potentially at risk.  If you don’t have an understanding of possible weaknesses in your IT infrastructure, vulnerability and penetration testing might be the best investment you can make.

Vulnerability and penetration assessments are the process of identifying weaknesses in your IT systems that could be exploited and providing context and recommendations to close those gaps.

The data that you will receive by performing these tests will:

  1. Validate what you already know about your IT Infrastructure
  2. (More importantly) Provide you data on what you don’t know and actions you can take