Month: September 2016

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Vulnerability Assessment

Why It’s Important To Run Vulnerability Assessment Test On Your Network! find a company that can give them an assessment of their business and home network. There is a serious Cyber war raging for your assets and we must do all we can and more than we can to protect it. So many times we hear about identity theft and for the most part we assume it cannot happen to us while we are on our home or small business networks. This is the furthest thing from the truth. There are millions of vulnerable routers and other devices that thieves can login to everyday. Most consumers are not aware of this. The assumptions are,  when they purchase a router or firewall application it’s safe and there’s nothing else to be done. This is absolutely the furthest thing from the truth. All devices MUST be upgrade as soon as a newer firmware or software is available. It’s a possibility the new firmware release was to patch an exploits.

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Intrusion Detection Systems

highlighted new trends for 2015 where hackers are causing major disruptions. They are disrupting business, stealing personally identifiable information and attacking routers and switches. I believe this new trend will continue into the foreseeable future. This is where Cyber Security Consulting Ops can help your home or business network to implement a good detection strategies can help to detect un-wanted visitors on your system. We MUST shift our focus to both prevention and detection. Intrusion Detection can be defined as “…the act of detecting actions that attempt to compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of a resource.” More specifically, the goal of intrusion detection is to identify entities attempting to subvert in-place security controls. Asset Must be use as bait to entice and track bad entities for early warning.