Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms
Why hack me?
When we are doing post-breach cleanup for new clients, many of them ask us the question, “Our business is not that interesting, so why would anyone hack me?” They may be a restaurant chain who thinks the only items of value they have are recipes that aren’t very hard to reproduce, or they could be a nonprofit …
What is IPv6 and Why Should You Care?
You mean we are running out of IP addresses on the Internet??? Yes, it’s true, sort of. IP addresses are used by computers to find each other on the Internet.
Each device has its own IP address (roughly, because some devices hide behind other devices such as a firewall, which uses its IP address for those devices).
We have been …
The tools and
automation used by cybercriminals today are sophisticated and far-reaching.
A 2011 survey conducted by Juniper Networks and the Ponemon Institute found that cybersecurity breaches cost 41% of businesses $500,000 or more.
If you want to know how secure your environment is, there are a number of different strategies and tests to run to get you an answer. And if you are asking the question, who would care about breaking into my network? Think again.
According to data gathered by Verizon Communications and the US Secret Service, 63% of the cyber attacks launched in 2010 were against companies with 100 employees or less. The world of cybercrime is about volume and money. The tools and automation used by cybercriminals today are sophisticated and far-reaching.
If you are unsure where to begin protecting yourself, a security audit or vulnerability assessment is a good place to start. The security audit can be performed on a network, a website, a database, an application, or even a remote data center or an Internet Service Provider. It is designed to provide a broad perspective of how your environment follows IT security best practices. A vulnerability assessment has a narrower scope than an audit; it focuses only on IT security vulnerabilities that could be used to compromise a system.
A penetration test is designed to mimic the process a hacker would use to break into a system. What information (websites, files, databases, applications) or systems (networks, hosts, firewalls, servers, Internet connections, routers) the test is designed to compromise, depends on the customer and their business risks.
Here are the some of the services we offer:
- IT Security Audits
- Penetration Testing (website, web application, network, database or host)
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Log and Authentication Assessments
- SEIM (Security Information and Event Management) Systems
- Compliance Audits (PCI, HIPAA)
If you are unsure of your organization’s needs, we are always willing to help you understand and weigh the options.