The Business Case for a Network Security Assessment

When an organization suffers a security breach, the effects are felt immediately across the organization, not just in the IT department. It doesn't matter if the breach occurred through vulnerable web applications, leaked passwords, a poorly-configured firewall, an un-patched operating system or a misplaced zip drive; when the exploit is discovered, the common response for any company is to take the systems off-line to diagnose the source. Typically, that means revenue-generating platforms like websites or web applications, or the backup systems that support them, will be off-line until the issue is fixed and the vulnerabilities are remediated.