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Security and Network Vulnerability Assessment

Cyber-criminal would have to search another job, could they not rely on two big “friends”. Human nature, with its traits of trusting, negligence, credulousness, ad curiosity is surely the strongest leverage in any hacker’s arsenal. Even in a world of advanced technology, hackers will use human weakness to unveil otherwise secure doors. However, technology is not perfect and telecom systems offer several opportunities to be exploited. These technical flaws are known as vulnerabilities.

Vulnerabilities in the whole World Wide Web are exploited all the time to attain control of computers and the complete networks and gain access to confidential data. Those network vulnerabilities can be found everywhere, but specifically in the web browsers and their plug-ins; in web servers and application software; and also in core equipments of the underlying network infrastructure of the Internet.

Unluckily, the host of the security coercion doesn’t end here. Big flaws can be found and exploited in several areas such as office programs, all operating systems, network device, mobile devices platforms and applications, to name a few.

These entire technical flaws give hidden doors that can be utilized to find a way around your security software, and “drop” a small program, which will “hook” your computer to a particular Botnet. Once captivated, your system will not show any problem and might even go unobserved to your existing antivirus and firewall software. In reality, that is the key aim of high-calibre hacker: to form a perfect piece of software, able to invisibly land and plant itself deep into a computer system, but ready to be activated when needed.

Luckily, more and more desktop software vendors are now disclosing vulnerabilities as they are discovered. From the users’ perspective, keeping up-to-date on patches has become important. And so have the tools to carry out a thorough “vulnerability assessment”. Some of the top anti-virus and Internet security suites integrate a “vulnerability scanner” that shows a host of operating system and installed applications, for which a “patch” has been released.

iViz Security, a leading name associated with security vulnerability assessment and network vulnerability assessment, provides comprehensive security solutions using attacker-oriented approach.

Jeff

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