George Orwell 1984 wrote about todays need for penetration testing

The need for penetration testing has become evident in today’s society as George Orwell depicted in his book 1984 relating to advances in technology.

In 1949, Eric Arthur Blair wrote a science fiction novel called “1984” under his pseudonym, George Orwell. The Science fiction novel presents a view of the world which is unnervingly realistic of today’s world. George Orwell foresaw advances in technology, the complete surveillance of society, the decomposition of history, and the limiting of freedoms. In today’s businesses advanced technology and data is persistently at risk of attack. Penetration testing is a necessity.

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Barracuda Application Deliver Controller security and storage solutions for “Big Data”

Big Data Explosion!

content>In today’s digital world, business enterprises need cost effective ways to guarantee security of the exploding volume of data that is being filtered through the internal network systems. “Big data” is no longer just confined to the realm of technology, today it is a business priority, and “Big data” has the ability to affect commerce in the global economy. Protecting this data with Barracuda application deliver controller, ADC can ensure it isn’t exploited and disseminated into the hands of the wrong people.

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CISSP

The world we live in is now driven by the world-wide-web and the resulting speed of change makes it increasingly difficult to manage security at the same time as delivering business requirements. Here at Krypsys, our aim is to take away the headache by providing the right security skills and solutions, on-demand, when and where you need them.

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Penetration testing: BBC demonstrates hackers can access web-cams

Hackers can actually look at you through your web-cam and listen to what’s going on in your workplace or even meetings. Are you aware of this? Penetration testing or “pen testing” is aimed at particularly identifying the points of reference where a hacker maybe accessing your infrastructure. A penetration test will start to identify with your systems weaknesses and omissions and using this information will penetrate deeper into your network to point the exact issues.

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Cyber-security: Britain faces around 70 sophisticated cyber-attack operations per month against its government and industry networks

Just how serious is the threat of cyber-attack to the UK? Are our government and industrial secrets being targeted globally by cyber criminals? Most people have been lulled into something of a false sense of security. They are aware of the fact that governments and businesses take great care to protect their valuable assets and information, using intrusion protection and advanced penetration testing to filter out the threats, and that by and large such practices have managed to keep a lid on the problem.

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Risk management: the UK Home Office launches a new £4 million information security awareness campaign

The UK Home Office has launched a new £4 million information security awareness campaign, designed to educate businesses and consumers about rising hacker threats and network vulnerabilities. The first stages of this new campaign will begin in the autumn, and will sit alongside other more-established information security initiatives like Get Safe Online, and form part of the broader government National Cyber Security Programme.

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WEBINAR: Web Browsers – Your New Security Perimeter

Protect On Q – Product Briefing & Demo – 17th July 2:30pm BST To attend, please complete the booking form at the bottom of this page The increase in web applications, cloud computing, SaaS and BYOD means web browsers have become the common interface for accessing information that drives business activity. Data loss from theft …

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Risk management and intrusion protection: effective cyber security is good for business claims Minister

How vulnerable are British businesses to the risk of cyber-threat? How often are networks infiltrated by malicious intruders? The answer according to the government is that business are now more at risk than ever before, and they are encouraging businesses to take proactive steps to protect themselves against those who would exploit their vulnerabilities. Why has this suddenly become such a hot topic? Well, because research commissioned by the Government has revealed that 87 per cent of all UK SMEs and 93 per cent of firms with more than 250 staff had experienced at least one security breach in 2012.

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Penetration testing; why is it so important for business?

In today’s climate of business insecurity it is becoming increasingly important for businesses to take every conceivable precaution to protect themselves and their assets from risk and breach. You only have to look in a newspaper or go online to read about the latest hack attack or security breach to realise that business are facing these dangers every day. Millions of pounds are being lost, and countless crucial data sets are being compromised. These security breaches can cause loss or significant damage to people, brands, reputation and profits.

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What’s the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test?

What’s the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test? The answer to that question depends on who you choose to ask. For some people they are effectively one and the same thing; for others there are clear distinctions. So what’s the true position? Are vulnerability assessments and penetration test effectively two sides of the same coin, or are there clear differences between the two? The short answer is that whilst a penetration test may be a form of vulnerability assessment, a vulnerability assessment is definitely not a penetration test.

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Network security( Penetration testing) : cyber-crime is costing the UK’s small businesses

It’s a well-known fact that small businesses are more susceptible to cyber-crime than many of their larger counterparts. A lack of funding and resources means that few small to medium-sized businesses can afford to pay for vulnerability assessments or penetration testing of their network security. But just how much money is this failure to protect online networks costing small businesses? Well, according to Federation of Small Businesses it’s something in the region of £785 million every year. That staggering figure is the price SMEs pay when they fall victim to fraud and malware.

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Security risk management: state-backed data spies hunt industrial secrets

If you ever doubted that security risk management was critical for businesses and enterprise, then your opinion might be changed after reading the information contained in the recent Verizon report. The latest study was published to coincide with Infosec – an annual security conference in London.

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WEBINAR: Cost Effective Change Auditing

“How effective is your current approach to auditing and monitoring IT Changes?” Join us on 5th June, 2013 15:00 You would think most organisations would have a reliable trail of “who, what, where and when” changes are made to their IT Infrastructures but the reality is a majority simply don’t. Where would you say you …

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