The Internet Security Risks Facing your Organization: Test and be Saved

The security of business IT systems has never been as important as it is today. IT underpins virtually all the activity conducted by businesses making them increasingly vulnerable to threats from hackers, viruses and even their own staff.

Effective security can mean your business is safe from malicious activity or accidental introduction of malware. Failing to secure systems, websites and manage employee usage of the internet exposes the company to great risk – risk of a damaged reputation, risk of system damage, loss of business and the cost of remedial work. This is in spite of common uses of defenses such as firewalls and intrusion detection or prevention systems.

To reduce as much of the threat possible, organizations need to identify, analyze and report vulnerabilities in a given application. According to Gartner, 75% of attacks occur at the application level and a Forrester survey states that “people are now attacking through applications, because it is easier than through the network layer.” The vulnerabilities may be present in the application due to inadvertent flaws left behind during development, security issues in the underlying environment and misconfigurations in one or more components such as the database or web server.

This document looks at why companies must factor in the security risks with every IT related decision that is taken and highlights several threats and how they can be reduced through testing.

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