Why Security Testing is Important to Business Managers
The challenge:
Effectively managing security risks to minimize operational interruptions and legal exposures
Your IT managers are likely spending more time and resources than ever before trying ensure that your organization is effectively protected from the wide range of external risks, from cyber-crime threats to accidental data loss, and the legal and regulatory issues that could arise from such scenarios.
Yet, despite spending years investing in staffing, consulting and technological means to achieve industry-standard levels of layered security, your team continues to ask for new defense mechanisms and budget increases aimed at addressing newly-emerging threats and compliance requirements.
Your organization may have already invested in proactive security systems including vulnerability scanners, security event management systems and compliance automation solutions. You might even be paying large sums to IT consultants on a semi-regular basis to help get ahead of potential risks. However, even with those technologies and processes in place, IT managers cannot guarantee that they have a clear view into whether or not your organization is sufficiently protected from cybercrime, compliance violations or other situations that could result in legal activity or damage done to your brand by potential incidents.
You need a comprehensive, independent method of assessing performance and ROI metrics related to your security infrastructure, and to prove to outside auditors that your organization is truly committed to defending its operations and assets from the full range of potential scenarios.
Proactive security testing is the most effective manner of addressing these challenges.
The solution:
Proactive security testing and risk management
Assess the efficacy and ROI of defense mechanisms and policies
The CORE IMPACT family of software solutions provides organizations with commercial-grade security testing capabilities that enable them maintain a firm grasp on where their most significant weaknesses lie, and quickly determine where to begin remediation efforts. When you select CORE IMPACT products, you get:
- Systems-independent validation that existing security controls are functioning properly and in concert to deliver optimal return on investment.
- Proof that security patches have been properly applied and that network or device configuration modifications do not introduce new vulnerabilities.
- Detailed reports to share with both technical and nontechnical audiences, including external compliance auditors, to illustrate the value of ongoing security work and plan future spending.
- Proactive security testing capabilities across a wide range of threat vectors including network systems, endpoint systems, email users, web applications and wireless networks.
- Actionable data in the form of detailed reporting of risks, including systems targeted, tests conducted, vulnerabilities exploited, and available exposure paths -- plus links to patches and remediation guidance.
- Safe emulation of multistaged threats testing both your perimeter and internal defenses using privilege escalation and pivoting techniques to drill down to your organization’s most critical assets -- identifying gaps in point solution coverage.
Ultimately, Core Security Technologies provides unmatched visibility into real risks that threaten your organization -- allowing you to maintain an unwavering level of security assurance across your diverse IT infrastructure.
Tap into a wealth of threat expertise
When you use CORE IMPACT products for security testing, you get more than just software applications; you get a culmination of ongoing, independent vulnerability research from some of the best minds in the business.
The CoreLabs research team filters hundreds of vulnerabilities per month to determine which pose critical threats to our customers. This analysis, combined the company’s own vulnerability discoveries and the Core Security Consulting group’s field experience, drives the development of real-world threat models by Core Engineering.
These threat models, in the form of exploits and other attack mechanisms, help to make CORE IMPACT the most comprehensive, effective security testing solution available today.
