Safeguarding Your Most Vital Business Resource

Safeguarding your critical business information is one of the most important aspects of running a business. Of course, there are various measures used to protect this information, such as firewalls, encryption, and access control. However, using security technology is only the first step to protecting your business information. Using security is not the same as practicing security, and the latter is a much more effective way of protecting your systems.

Practicing good information security means more than just turning on a box or installing software and assuming your business is in the clear. Educating the workforce is a great way to practice good security. Another method (and the purpose of today’s post) is periodic testing of equipment and systems to ensure that they are truly protecting your information. Penetration testing is exactly that -  testing your implementation for holes and gaps that could potentially lead to compromise of your business information.

David Maynor, makes a good point in his article about zero-day penetration testing. New attacks appear daily and without warning (known as zero-day attacks). Many times, the technology itself can’t protect against these type of attacks, and they are the most dangerous. Penetration testing looks for these types of vulnerabilities in your systems, and allows us to set up generalized mitigation techniques that will go “above and beyond” the technology itself to secure your business resources. Even though it is difficult to anticipate specific attacks, a good security professional is aware of new issues associated with specific technologies, and can employ measures such as better configuration, education and patching to strengthen the system.

At Etnacom, we have nearly 10 years of experience in all realms of information technology (industry, government and academic) that allow us to test the security of technologies that reside within your organization. We have the tools, knowledge and manpower to assist you in keeping your most vital business resources safe from outside threats.