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The Business Case for a Network Security Assessment

Overview When an organization suffers a security breach, the effects are felt immediately across the organization, not just in the IT department. It doesn't matter if the breach occurred through vulnerable web applications, leaked passwords, a poorly-configured firewall, an un-patched operating system or a misplaced zip drive; when the exploit is discovered, the common response for any company is to take the systems off-line to diagnose the source. Typically, that means revenue-generating platforms like websites or web applications, or the backup systems that support them, will be off-line until the issue is fixed and the vulnerabilities are remediated.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Pacific Coast Information Systems	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Firewalls, Network Security, Security Management

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