Security Vulnerability Assessment – An Important Aspect of your Organization
Even in a world of perfect technology cyber hackers can penetrate through otherwise secure doors
. Technology is perfect though there may be some technical flaws in software and network systems. Computers and telecommunication systems offer plenty of opportunities to be exploited. These technical flaws are known as "vulnerabilities". That is why security vulnerability assessment and network vulnerability assessment is very important.
Through these vulnerabilities, hackers try to obtain control of computers and entire networks and gain access to confidential data. Those vulnerabilities can be found everywhere, but particularly in Internet browsers and their plug-ins; in Web servers and application software; and even in core devices of the underlying network infrastructure of the Web. Certain major flaws can be found and exploited in many other areas, like office programs such as Microsoft Word, operating systems, mobile devices platforms and applications also.
All these vulnerabilities provide hidden doors that can be used to find a way around your security software. A malicious program may not show up in your system and might even go unnoticed to your existing antivirus and firewall software but it invisibly land and plant itself deep into a computer system, but ready to be activated when required.
You can't fix a problem, if you dont employ security vulnerability assessment to rectify the problem. But it is equally important to have a sure solution to fix it quickly and easily. Some of the top antivirus and Internet security suites integrate a vulnerability scanner that shows a list of the effected parts of the operating system and installed applications.
While choosing antivirus and firewall software you need to check its compatibility for the network vulnerability assessment. Together with an effective and easy to manage desktop firewall saves your day by day maintenance and your computer is secured in a better way.