Protect sensitive information
systems with a regular check-up.
Are your network doors open to hackers? Are the doors to your office locked at night? This appears to be a facetious question but most organizations ensure physical security is managed but are not applying similar priority to protecting very sensitive information systems. Vulnerability scanning provides a quick, easy and inexpensive check to ensure systems are protected by baseline perimeter security devices and that system configurations are set to defend against programmatic attacks.
In addition to justified risk mitigation, several regulatory requirements in the financial services, Payment Card Industry (PCI) and government sector require regulated entities to perform periodic external and internal vulnerability assessments. In fact, vulnerability management has become as commonplace as firewall deployment was in the early 90s. Management teams in leading organizations require that IT managers understand the level of risk in the daily operations of systems and proactively mitigate that risk. Vulnerability scanning is a critical step to identify systems that are at risk for attack. Many auditors are finding that the lack of effective vulnerability scanning and reporting could lead to a determination of negligence in the event of a data breach.
Since vulnerability is a mature process and in some instances, a required process, Coalfire has developed an automated and streamlined program that provides three levels of vulnerability scanning services. The scanning services include an easy user interface to request service and an automated reporting mechanism to constrain the cost of providing transparency on the effectiveness of system safeguards and configuration to defend against increasing cyber attacks.