Are you aware that vulnerabilities in a system existed since an early age of the development of the internet and cybersecurity? Earlier people round the globe were in dark, as media was not active to publish the news of hacking and stealing information. However, in today’s digital world, the scenario is different. People working within the computing system often hear the news of cyber-crimes and cybersecurity in Nepal. Although you hear the news, does one really know what might be the causes of cyber-crimes? Yes, if you have got a flaw in a system or your system is vulnerable then a hacker can enter and destroy the integrity of the system. That is exactly why we need cyber defense. Greentick also provides cybersecurity and information security IS services in Nepal to organizations that use customer data and information for providing services.

Vulnerability assessment refers to the process of identifying risks and vulnerabilities in computer networks, systems, hardware, and applications. Such vulnerabilities are often found due to weak passwords, faulty software, viruses or any sort of malicious script injection, including miss-configurations and policy non-compliance. Vulnerabilities that patching and maintenance alone might not be addressed. Vulnerability assessments assign a risk to every threat. These risks can have a priority, urgency, and impact assigned to them. Which makes it easier to focus on those people who could create the foremost issues for an organization.

Vulnerability assessments are a critical component of the vulnerability management and IT risk management life cycles, helping protect systems and data from unauthorized access and data breaches. It supports tools like vulnerability scanners to spot threats and flaws within an organization’s IT infrastructure that represents potential vulnerabilities or risk exposures. Therefore, it is important to do vulnerability assessment at a regular interval of time which meets the cybersecurity and information security IS service compliance in Nepal and regulatory needs for area like PCI DSS and HIPAA. We greentick, can facilitate by making you alert about the presence of vulnerabilities in your system. This way your chances of disabling the system by the exploiter will minimize.

You may have false understanding that vulnerability assessment and penetration testing are of an equivalent assessment. However, actually does one know they are not the same. Penetration testing includes an assessment of vulnerability; so, it’s just one of the extra steps of such tests where an active analysis of the system is completed to find out any technical flaws or vulnerabilities. After having penetration testing, if we find any security issues then we conduct an assessment so as to determine the severity of issues and recommend risks reduction plan.

In order to do penetration testing, you may have view that your own security officer who knows inside out of the system will be able to handle the test. Penetration Testing provides deep insights on security deficiencies in an environment and helps to gauge a system’s loophole to a specific threat and therefore the evolving ones. A security officer can fully understand the security flaws, overall risk, and assets that are susceptible to cyber security breaches.

To remain protected and to counter surprise attacks, a radical penetration testing can fix the unattended security issues. Therefore, it is important to do penetration testing every year which meets the cyber security service in Nepal compliance; and regulatory needs for area like PCI DSS and SOC 2. However, our view is that if a 3rd party who has less knowledge about your constructed protection system perform penetration testing, then he is more likely to find so – called blind spots which may have been missed by your developers while developing and organizing protection level. Therefore, our White Hat (professionally qualified) consultant will be able to serve you with the aim of improving your security. They will determine how and where hackers have entered but also will update you with how they could have behaved once they entered.

Now organizations rely more on information technology and systems to work their business. So, it’s obvious that the inherent risks involved increase. Therefore, being at the top level, you would like to possess risk management strategy within your organization. So as to possess the strategy, have you ever done cyber risk assessment? Because this assessment is going to be the inputs for you to form a decision about your organizational data security.

Once we perform your cyber risk assessment. We thoroughly understand your most vital information technology assets, internal and external vulnerabilities and impact of these vulnerabilities. If you have got any cyber-attack or security incidents, there may be anomalies for business to work and analyzing. The risk assessment is to be identifying sensible measures to control the risks in a workplace; it’s not about creating an enormous amount of paperwork.

Probably you must have already taken steps to guard your data; plus, if you maintain risk assessment it will assist you decide the maturity level of your risk assessment. In an organization the risk assessment serves many purposes of reducing operational risks, improving safety performance and achieving objectives. By conducting risk assessment, it can assist you identify where you need to look at certain risks, and these particular control measures in additional details. As a part of overall risk assessment, the control measures don’t need to be assessed separately which may be considered as a part of extension.

Additionally, our assessment on your data breach if any, will identify whether such incident happened from malware, cyber-attack or human factor. Additionally, during risk assessment, we will find out your relevant threats and therefore the threat sources to your organization. Hence, once risk assessment handling is complete then you will be ready to develop. IT security control and data security strategies for your organization which can ultimately facilitate in reducing security risks.