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IT Security Assessment is a methodical review of security weaknesses in an information system. Audit Services assesses if the system is vulnerable to any known susceptibilities, assigns strictness levels to those vulnerabilities, and recommends remediation or justification, if and whenever needed.

Examples of threats that can be prohibited by IT Security vulnerability assessment include:

SQL injection, XSS and other code injection attacks.

Increase of privileges due to faulty verification mechanisms.

Insecure defaults – software that ships with uncertain settings, such as a guessable admin password.

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There are numerous types of vulnerability assessments. These include:

Host assessment – The assessment of serious servers, which may be susceptible to attacks if not sufficiently tested or not made from a tested machine image.

Network and wireless assessment – The valuation of policies and practices to prevent illegal admission to private or public networks and network-accessible resources.

Database assessment – The valuation of databases or big data systems for weaknesses and mis-configurations, recognizing rogue databases or insecure Dev/test settings, and categorizing delicate data across an organization’s infrastructure.

Vulnerability assessment: Security scanning procedure

The security scanning procedure contains four steps: testing, scrutiny, assessment and remediation. 

1). Vulnerability identification (testing)

The reason for this step is to draft a complete list of an application’s weaknesses. IT Audit Services provide experts that test the security strength of applications, servers or other systems by scanning them with computerized tools, or testing and assessing them manually. Specialists also rely on susceptibility databases, vendor weakness announcements, asset management systems and threat intellect feeds to recognize security weaknesses.

2. Vulnerability analysis

The goal of this step is to categorize the source and root cause of the susceptibilities identified in step one.

It includes the identification of system mechanisms responsible for each vulnerability, and the root cause of the weakness. For example, the root cause of a susceptibility could be an old version of an open source library. This delivers a clear trail for remediation –enhancing the library.