Security breaches and service interruptions are costly:
Security breaches and any related interruptions in the performance of services or applications, can result in direct financial losses, threaten organizations’ reputations, erode customer loyalties, attract negative press, and trigger significant fines and penalties.
A penetration test provides an assessment of the security vulnerabilities. A well-conducted penetration test, performed by a competent organization, will help you determine whether your operational practices, equipment, and policies are up to the task. Properly executed penetration tests can provide evidence that vulnerabilities do exist and that network penetrations are possible. More importantly, they provide a blueprint for remediation in order to start or enhance a comprehensive information protection strategy.
IN SUMMARY:
From a business perspective, penetration testing helps safeguard your organization against failure, through:
- Preventing financial loss through fraud (hackers, extortionists and disgruntled employees) or through lost revenue due to unreliable business systems and processes.
- Proving due diligence and compliance to your industry regulators, customers and shareholders. Non-compliance can lead to your organization losing business, receiving heavy fines, gathering bad PR or ultimately failing.
- Protecting your brand by avoiding loss of consumer confidence and business reputation.
From an operational perspective, penetration testing helps shape information security strategy through:
- Identifying vulnerabilities and quantifying their impact and likelihood in order to be managed proactively; budget can be allocated and corrective measures implemented.
The Litcom Approach
Litcom has extensive expertise conducting enterprise wide and system specific Threat Risk Assessments (TRAs) and application and web penetration testing. Moreover, Litcom’s comprehensive TRA methodology will ensure that your application, network, and computing infrastructure are thoroughly scrutinized in order to reduce risk and exposure.
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