Why Security Testing is Important to Operational IT Professionals
The Challenge:
Isolating security exposures and prioritizing remediation efforts.
As an IT specialist responsible for maintaining your organization’s ongoing security posture, you need to both protect a wide range of IT systems and defend your organization’s backend stores of valuable data from potential exposure. You’re tasked with keeping your organization’s information systems patched and updated as your infrastructure grows, and with prioritizing remediation efforts as new vulnerabilities are discovered and external threats continue to become more pervasive and sophisticated.
You may also be responsible for helping your organization remain compliant with government and industry regulations that demand stricter management of security controls to ensure that sensitive data remains locked down.
To help address your security challenges, your organization has probably installed many layers of defensive solutions, but these systems require regular testing and tuning to make certain that they maintain their efficacy against the rigors of today’s rapidly evolving threat environment, and in meeting compliance requirements.
So how do you keep up with remediation efforts and strengthen your organization’s defenses against round-the-clock threats -- all while still finding time to address other IT projects?
You may use vulnerability scanners and patch management applications to assess where potential security weaknesses exist across your infrastructure. These systems are valuable, but they also create volumes of information that make it hard to quickly identify your organization’s most pressing risks to prioritize remediation efforts.
To cut through information overload and get your hands on actionable data that will assist with remediation planning, you need to assess your security and compliance posture within the context of real-world threats: via comprehensive security testing.
The solution:
Actionable data for vulnerability validation and remediation efficiency.
Move from reactive to proactive through real-world security testing
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 use CORE IMPACT products, you get:
- Proactive security testing capabilities across a wide range of threat vectors including networks, endpoint systems, email users, web applications and wireless networks.
- 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.
- 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.
- A product that reflects over a decade of professional vulnerability research and commercial-grade exploit development, constantly updated as threats emerge.
- 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.
- Detailed reports to share with both technical and nontechnical audiences, including external compliance auditors, to illustrate the value of ongoing security work and defend future spending.
Ultimately, Core Security Technologies provides unmatched visibility into real risks that threaten your organization -- allowing you to maintain an unwavering level of security vigilance 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.
