As cybercrime continues to expand at an alarming rate, MSPs need to proactively seek new solutions to protect clients and deter attacks. Offering vulnerability scanning should be the minimal baseline offering, yet too many MSPs are reluctant to provide the service. Why the reluctance? The excuses are...
In principle, a vulnerability is a weakness in a system or network that can be exploited by cybercriminals to gain unauthorized access to wreak havoc. What happens next is anybody’s guess — installation of malware, the theft of sensitive data, damaged, lost or locked data...
You know what vulnerabilities are and that vulnerability scanning can help mitigate those vulnerabilities. But that’s not enough to protect your networks. Now you need to establish your own vulnerability management program. Every organization takes a different approach to its vulnerability management process, it largely...
Delivering Vulnerability Management-as-a-Service (V-MaaS) is a straight-forward exercise. Set up your internal and external vulnerability scanner to run at a desired frequency; review the alert reports as they come in and determine which issues that need to be immediately addressed, which should be investigated, and...
Businesses that don’t identify and remediate vulnerabilities in their IT environments are easy targets for cybercriminals or malicious insiders. Given today’s cyberthreat landscape, not running vulnerability scans regularly is a mistake that, sooner or later, will cost your organization dearly. Let’s take a few minutes to...
The people you work with, or for, need your IT expertise to address the ever-increasing number of IT threats and vulnerabilities. We're not talking just simply installing and setting up scanners to run but making the most of the results of vulnerability scans to strengthen...
While every organization takes a slightly different approach to the vulnerability management process, it largely revolves around three main elements or phases. Skipping any of these will render your entire process incomplete and ineffective. 1. Identifying vulnerabilities: This step usually involves a vulnerability scanner that identifies...
Just like everyone needs to get periodic X-ray scans when they visit the dentist, every computer network needs periodic vulnerability scanning as part of good IT security hygiene. Sometimes an X-ray will reveal hidden decay or other issues that need immediate attention. The same X-ray...
Just because cyberattacks decline for one report cycle doesn’t mean they won’t rise again. Cyber trends ebb and flow, and hackers will persistently seek easy prey – companies of any size with weak cyber defenses. Unless the number of attacks falls to zero, SMBs need...
An all too common cyberattack strategy involves scanning the target’s system for vulnerabilities. Once a weakness is discovered, hackers use it to their advantage. And for cybercriminals, it’s not the size of the business that matters, it’s the ease of access. Just as threats are...