In all likelihood, your enterprise is inspected more often by hackers than by your security staff. Vulnerabilities exist in all network configurations, web services, and software packages. It is only a matter of time before they are discovered and then maliciously exploited. Such makes it apparent the importance of a proactive IT vulnerability assessment strategy regarding your enterprise.

To that end, Clone Systems offers CG-VAS, a managed vulnerability assessment service that entails scanning all web applications, databases, networks, operating systems and other network-resident software to detect threats, assess their risk and devise a remediation plan to quickly mitigate them. It enables IT and security groups to implement a measurable and proactive vulnerability management process that eliminates security weaknesses in your network before the network is penetrated and sensitive information is compromised.

CG-VAS is a managed service, meaning that it is performed on a one-time basis by our expert staff of security engineers. The ultimate benefits derived from this thorough and encompassing security audit include:

• Building and broadening awareness. The process of doing a thorough assessment directs senior management’s attention to IT security. It surfaces security issues, risks, vulnerabilities, mitigation options, and underscores best practices.
  
  
• Establishing or evaluating against a baseline. If a baseline has been established, an assessment is an opportunity for a "check up" to gauge the improvement or deterioration of an organization’s security posture.
  
  
• Identifying vulnerabilities and subsequent responses. Generating lists of vulnerabilities and potential responses is the core activity and outcome of an assessment. This information can help drive or motivate the development of a risk management process.
  
  
• Categorizing key assets and driving risk-management practices. An assessment can be a vehicle for reaching corporate-wide consensus on a hierarchy of key assets. This ranking, combined with threat, vulnerability and risk analysis is at the heart of any risk management process.
  
  
• Promoting network security action. An assessment can crystallize and focus management attention and resources on solving specific and systemic security problems.

Clone Guard^® CG-VAS

Clone Systems’ vulnerability assessment is based on industry best practices we have developed and refined over hundreds of engagements remotely and at client sites. The assessment includes tests for SQL injection, cookie manipulation, access control weaknesses, session state, and cross-site scripting. Upon completion of the assessment, our security engineers review the results with your organization and discuss potential remediation tactics. Full documentation of the assessment is provided in a series of customized reports designated by your company.

Our managed care solution provides substantial benefits over your company doing an assessment internally. Perhaps principal among these is that your organization requires full-time expert personnel, as they are required to reference and cross-reference against numerous types of reports being generated. The complexity of the process often allows important patches and updates to system files to fall through the cracks. Clone Systems’ proven expertise in vulnerability assessment and testing, as well as other related network security strategies, make us uniquely capable to provide you with unerring third-party validation of your security infrastructure and your in-place policies.

Clone Systems welcomes your inquiries about managed vulnerability assessment. Contact one of our representatives today to get more information or to arrange a meeting.