Cyber Essentials certification is increasingly becoming a minimum requirement for many businesses, who expect their partners and suppliers not only to ensure that they protect personal data, but that they can prove it.
Do I need a penetration test? If you have a website that takes information about usersโฆ If you have a website that takes credit cardsโฆ If you have an internal system that shares personal information with external bodiesโฆ If you develop systems that will hold personal...
Penetration testing is required for two main reasons: Everyone makes mistakes! In Microsoft Windows for instance there are over a 50 million lines of code, there are definitely going to be mistakes, and some can be costly. Hackers actively look for those mistakes....
Vulnerability scanning is the process of scanning software and systems for known vulnerabilities.
How do you perform a vulnerability scan? A vulnerability scan is performed by a piece of software that resides either on a system inside the network, or more often on a cloud service. Modern scanners are very powerful and have a lot of automation built-in, so for a...
What does vulnerability scanning do? Vulnerability scanning is the process of scanning software and systems for known vulnerabilities. A vulnerability scanner will maintain and refer to a massive database of known vulnerabilities in order to compare and classify...
Chief information security officers (CISOs) are in high demand, and good ones are expensive and difficult to find. Following a rash of high-profile data breaches, and knowing that such breaches have far-reaching consequences that are far more costly than the cost of...
Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning are often confused as the same service. This leads to business owners purchasing one when they really need the other. Below, we will outline the differences between the two to help better your understanding and ascertain which service your business requires.
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