As increasing numbers of companies take part in their business online, the need for protection from hacking and other cyber threats becomes paramount. Having a safe website means customers are more likely to be loyal and the company successful. With this in mind, here we ask, how do cybersecurity companies ensure your site is secure?
Penetration Testing
A reputable cybersecurity company will offer a range of measures that can be implemented to ensure a website is secure. One of the first things to be done is to assess just how secure the site is current and to do this, penetration testing is required.
Penetration testing involves experts trying to hack into your website, from outside and inside the company network. Doing so will expose any weaknesses, which in turn can be “patched” or, in layman’s terms, repaired. Once the testing is complete, a report will be written to detail how robust the system is.
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Managing and Monitoring
A comprehensive cybersecurity management company will also manage and monitor a company’s website to ensure it remains safe and secure. This involves conducting scans and making sure security patches are kept up to date, along with firewalls and antivirus software. Generally speaking, the cybersecurity company will do all of this from a remote location – the security operations center.
The security operations center can also be used as a base for monitoring a company’s website and wider IT system. Alerts will be triggered if there are any signs of unusual activity, for example, if someone is trying to compromise the system via an entry field present on the website – an SQL injection.
Incident Response Service
Any activity that could compromise the website’s security or the system can be responded to immediately by an incident response team. Many cybersecurity management companies operate 24 hours a day, and so the companies that use their services have the peace of mind that someone is always on standby, ready to respond to a threat.
In addition to protecting your data, this type of 360 degree protection will stop all manner of attack including infiltration by hackers wwho wantto use your system as a proxy for sending spam emails and feing used as temporary storage for illegal files. So, for many companies who rely heavily on their website and IT systems, recruiting a cybersecurity management company’s services is invaluable.
