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Performing a Security Risk Assessment Could Save Your Business

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Performing a Security Risk Assessment Could Save Your BusinessCybercrime is an ever-increasing risk. As technology advances, so do the abilities and tactics of hackers who would just love to get their hands on your most sensitive data. To them, the information you hold in your systems is like a gold mine just waiting to be excavated. However, business owners often dismiss the possibility with these common responses: “Well, my data is secure. We bought the best software on the planet years ago.” “Our data isn’t really sensitive, so no one would bother.” “Eh, we’ve never been hacked, so why would anyone target us now?” These misconceptions actually reveal some of the main reasons you could be targeted and attacked—all underlining the importance of an immediate security risk assessment.

“A security risk assessment is a risk analysis performed on your network and cyber

security measures to determine exactly how vulnerable you are, and just how difficult (or

easy) it is to hack into your system”

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What Is a Security Risk Assessment?Simply put: a security risk assessment is a risk analysis performed on your network and cyber security measures to determine exactly how vulnerable you are, and just how difficult (or easy) it is to hack into your system. If your defenses are up to snuff, penetrating them should be rather difficult, right?

When we perform a security risk assessment on your website, we specifically look for these types of vulnerabilities and carefully document them.

Plug the Holes and Build Up Your DefensesOnce we document and notate all of the vulnerabilities we discover in your security risk assessment, it’s time to do something about it sooner than later. Think of it this way:

Your friend who is a locksmith comes to your house for a visit, and he notices you have a vulnerability on your front door that allows anyone

86%Most people are surprised that a recent study found 86% of websites contained at least one “serious” vulnerability. Eighty-six percent. That’s almost all of them.

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who recognizes the vulnerability to open it quickly and easily. He then tells you there has been a rash of home intrusions lately. Would you then seek to immediately fix the vulnerability to protect your family and personal items? Why, wouldn’t you also react with the appropiate measures to protect the livelihood of yourself and your co-workers?

Once all vulnerabilities are identified, that’s when the work begins. The top priority is to quickly plug those holes to keep all unsavory characters out, and then begin to create the ideal security defenses for your organization.

Find Vulnerabilities Before Anyone Else Does The hard truth of the matter: if we can find vulnerabilities in your system, others can do the same. Our mission in running a thorough security risk assessment is to find any risk a malicious visitor might find, and fix them before they’re discovered.

It’s not easy to be a hacker – in order to succeed, they have to spend a considerable amount of time on a particular website, using

Most companies do. In fact, according to Osterman, more than 2/3 of organizations consider security vulnerability testing to be a best practice.

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painstaking and tedious measures to uncover any weakness in a defensive network specifically designed to stop them. It’s their hope that you’ve missed something, so they can exploit it.

We will be as thorough as any hacker might be to find these weaknesses and block all of their efforts. Cyber criminals profit from the hardships (or even demise) of businesses like yours. Don’t let them. Together, we can stop them dead in their tracks.

AdRem will Help Keep You Safe In business – sad though it may be – it truly is “survival of the fittest.” Your security measures are in place to frustrate cyber criminals into moving onto another target. If you succeed, and other businesses follow your lead, we can collectively help reduce the impact of cybercrime simply by employing proactive, preventative measures. Talk to us about your security measures, and we’ll move quickly to set up a security risk assessment that helps get you safe and protected sooner than later.

www.adrem.com1801 Robert Fulton Dr #270,

Reston, VA 20191