In today's ever-changing digital communications world, new technologies enable enhanced performance and efficiency at every turn. Yet, with advancements in new network systems and functionality comes the increased risk of exposure to unexpected security threats external (and internal) to the organization. The ability to test for such vulnerabilities has long been a concern for companies seeking maximum protection for key company assets, from intellectual property to personnel.
Why perform a Threat Risk Assessment?
A significant challenge for any IT security program is to define priorities, gather metrics, and implement cost effective solutions in a logical and coherent manner. A Threat Risk Assessment does just that, using risk mitigation to build an effective IT framework.
A threat risk assessment is designed to answer the following key questions.
- What needs to be protected?
- Who/What are the threats and vulnerabilities?
- What are the implications if they were damaged or lost?
- What is the value to the organization?
- What can be done to minimize exposure to the loss or damage?
The objective of a threat and risk assessment is to highlight exposures and provide recommendations that maximize the protection of confidential information, ensure the integrity of data and enable availability of critical information while still providing functionality and usability. In order to best determine the answers to these questions, companies should regularly perform a threat and risk assessment. It is important that the risk assessment be collaborative process, with the involvement of the various organizational levels so the assessment can lead to a timely and effective security measure.
Why perform Penetration Testing?
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.
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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