Free Vulnerability and Penetration Testing
What Benefits are there to your business?
- Identify the vulnerabilities in the companies I.T. systems
- Identify current external threats to your I.T. system
- Produce a report identifying the risk factors
- Offer potential solutions to the identified risks
- A report identifying risk factors to your security and potential solutions will be issued.
Vulnerability Testing – assesses the weaknesses of a systems security
Penetration Testing – seeks to exploit the weaknesses and enables organisation to fully assess the risks and consequences of being exploited.
What do you agree to?
Having your external security systems tested and/or ethically hacked.
What do we need?
- Your approval for the testing to take place
- Ideally 2 contacts within the organisation (typically the MD and the person responsible for I.T.), and no more to ensure the validity of the testing.
- Relevant third parties to be informed or permissions gained if the testing is to be carried out.
Third parties need to be informed if Vulnerability Testing is to be carried out – this can be further clarified by pointing out no vulnerabilities found will be exploited, and this has no threat to the system being tested.
Authorisation needs to be provided from third parties (e.g. ISPs, web hosting providers, etc) if Penetration Testing will be happening, and they agree to it. A pro-forma for this can be provided by Meritec.
And then…
It will be possible to apply to The Crime Prevention Fund within the Business Crime Reduction Centre to provide solutions for the remedial work that may be required. However you will need to provide 2 additional quotes (alongside Meritec’s) for the work to be undertaken, and these will need to be submitted before a panel for assessment. The amounts will be subject to a 30 day defrayal, and will be subject to the normal Crime Prevention Fund guidelines. For more information on The Crime Prevention Fund, please <click here>
Find out more
Please contact your local Business Advisor, by clicking on location link below
Barnsley | Doncaster | Rotherham | Sheffield