System or network vulnerabilities and security threats can severely impact business operations or even shutter its doors. However, these incidents can be prevented by proactively detecting potential threat opportunities. Penetration tests and scans can be conducted both inside the organization and against external points of entry such a routers, email systems and web servers. These tests operate over a network and check for an array of possible security risks.

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