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What is IT Security Assessment?In: Computer History |
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An IT Security Accessment can mean two things (depending on the context)
The first meaning is when a business asks the IT department (or more usally an outside consulting company who specialises in this area), to analyse their LAN and or website, or in the case of a large multi-site company it can mean to access the integerty of their network(s).
The way this IT Security team will run tools and see if all systems (the software like operating systems and their applications) are patched against known vulnerabilities (these are published by Bugtrac , Microsoft and other companies).
Sometimes, but not always the IT Team will check the physical computers themselves, for example in some goverment building, the computers are tied to the desk or wall to prevent theft.
The second meaning, is when people confuse an "IT Security accessment" with Penetration testing, which is the same, except that the IT Security Team will activley attempt to break into the company network (a NDA is used in this case and absolves the people doing this of legal action, also known as a "get out of jail free" card)
Protocol Solutions, is a network security company based in Ireland and there is free chat on the website, where you can ask staff questions like this.
The website address is at : http://www.protocolsolutions.co.uk/
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