On-Demand Security is the Need of the Hour

With the availability of sophisticated and modern IT tools, companies are increasingly adopting remote access technologies that enable them to have greater mobility and flexibility. Hence, is becomes important to protect network’s unmanaged endpoints. The advent of new web-based applications has completely changed the way businesses could access and utilize corporate information. It has allowed widespread access from remote PCs that are beyond internal control. Hence on-demand security becomes important.

According to a report, there are at least 20% systems on enterprise networks that are unmanaged. And this number is going to increase with the rapid growth of mobile and remote users. These non-compliant, un-secure systems include home PCs, Internet kiosks, and public computers and expose organizations to malicious software attacks as and when they get connected to the network.

If there are no means to verify whether a PC is already infected with malicious software, the entire network is impacted and brings down the productivity. It also reduces network and desktop availability that increases Help Desk costs while compromising on data confidentiality. That’s the reason why Companies need a comprehensive defense strategy that allows them to secure unmanaged endpoints without affecting the productivity and flexibility of the system.

Security Testing is an integral part of On-demand security that is used to determine that an IS (Information System) protects data and maintains functionality as intended. There are six basic security concepts that should be covered by security testing - confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization, availability and non-repudiation.

Confidentiality is a security measure to protect the system against the disclosure of information to third parties.

Integrity is a measure intended to allow the receiver to determine that the correct information is provided.

Authentication establishes the validity of a transmission, message, or originator and allows a receiver to have confidence that information it receives has originated from a reliable source.

Authorization is the process to determine whether a requester should be allowed to receive a service or perform an operation.

Availability assures that the information and communication services should be ready for use when expected.

Non-repudiation measure helps in preventing the later denial that an action happened, or a communication that took place, etc.

You need an expert’s help to keep your database and the functional system secured. Iviz Security, a premium software testing company, provides on demand security and security testing to shield your network's security, including potential vulnerabilities and threats.