SECURITY

Vulnerability management, threat visualisation

Seek, locate and destroy IT security risks

What is your biggest IT risk?

There’s been acute change in the focus of IT security recently. Maverick, big brained IT hackers are yesterday’s news. Today it’s about organised crime infiltrating and then using your IT infrastructure for its own financial gains.

Unfortunately the distributed nature of most IT infrastructures and vast numbers of users makes them unsecure and complex. Increased access flexibility and user choice in the future is only going to make matters worse. Vulnerability management and threat visualisation is your means of seeking, locating and destroying IT security hazards before they become real.

UK organisations need a handle on vulnerability management and threat visualisation that is as granular as searching the web. New Data Protection Act spot fine rules from April 2010 allow the ICO to sting an organisation for up to £0.5m, so there is no room for error.

Organisations can’t afford to take a ‘just in case’insurance policy view of security covering everything. This is expensive when budgets are already under duress. Finding causal hotspots is essential and requires process, as well as technology to control risk, for which ISO 27001 and 27002 is the baseline.

Seek assistance from EQALIS to manage your security vulnerability.