You may have heard of the ‘cyber essentials‘ scheme, which launched in June 2014. Cyber Essentials is a simple but effective, Government backed scheme, created to help you protect your organisation against a range of the most common cyber attacks.
In collaboration with Information Assurance for Small and Medium Enterprises (IAMSE) they have set out basic technical controls for organisations to use which is annually assessed.
How Acunetix Works Acunetix works in the following manner: Acunetix DeepScan analyses the entire website by following all the links on the site, including links which are dynamically constructed using JavaScript, and links found in robots.txt and sitemap.xml (if...
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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