IT Security

Penetration Testing Risks

Presently, the idea that information governs the world is not anything new. The swifter and quicker business develops its technological and information framework, the higher is the risk of malicious access to the information. Commercial, financial, managerial, HR and other information is of interest not only for the company where it is created and used, but also for its competitors, and for people who can take hold of it for the purpose of further unauthorized usage and resale. The need for data security is always growing.

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Security Risks - Insiders

Speaking about information security, you need to define two categories of threats which business faces: these are external and internal attacks. External attacks are anyhow connected to illegal access to confidential data; their source is outside of the enterprise or organization corporate network. Today, there are effective measures of counteraction allowing you to successfully protect your business from such intrusions – firewalls, anti-virus software, traffic filters, anti-spyware, automated security scanners, and various penetration testing and ethical hacking services, etc.; the IT market meets the business needs by offering a number of hardware-software solutions which allow reliably protecting the corporate network and data from external threats.

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Risks of Using Weak Passwords

Modern life makes it more and more difficult to get along without using a computer—both at work and at home. In the first case, you use various terminals, databases, and multiuser services; in the second case, there are personal pages and blogs, forums and social networks, and communication by means of Internet pagers and voice and video chats. In both the cases, passwords are necessary. But what are they useful for? First, they are useful in restricting access to confidential, secret information and personal user data.

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Unwanted Data Recovery Prevention

If your laptop, computer, memory stick or PDA is sold, stolen or lost, hackers and identity thieves can easily recover the files that you think were deleted. These files are not necessarily erased from your computer despite the Recycle Bin being empty. When your computer saves a file, it writes data on a disk (or memory stick) and takes note of the file location. When you delete the file, it is transferred to the Recycle Bin. When you empty the Recycle Bin, the computer erases only the note about the previous file location, but file content is left intact on the disk until some other file is eventually written over it. The entire content of an erased file can remain untouched anywhere from a few seconds to a few years. Hackers can easily uncover and read it using public data recovery software.

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