How Information Security and Penetration Testing is useful? - By: Torrid Networks

The term information security is related to protecting the information from the intruders in any organization. By providing the information security for any information we can protect its availability, privacy and integrity. In present time many business information’s are stored in computer system like client’s details, marketing and sales information, bank account details, etc. These are the information which are not available for public viewing these are highly confidential. It’s very difficult to operate any organization without this information that is why we need to implement information security system to protect the information.
The information security system includes a range of policies, technology and procedure. There are many software applications like firewall information security and virus scanner which are not enough to protect the information, we need to apply many procedure to deter the information effectively protect it from the unauthorized person.
The biggest potential threats are people for the information security who operate the computer. So, it’s necessary for the people to have full knowledge about information security. Confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information are the basic principle for information security. It’s also known as CIA triad. The term confidentiality used to prevent the information from unauthorized individuals or system. The term integrity used for data cannot be modified. The term availability belongs to the availability of information that is when the information is needed it must be available.

Penetration testing is also known as pen testing sometime. It is the process by which we can measure the security weakness of the computer system.
Penetration testing can be performed manually or by the mean of software application. By penetration testing we can determine the potential vulnerability that could results from improper system configuration. The penetration testing is a component of a full security audit of any computer system or network. The main reason behind the penetration testing is to determine unauthorized access to the system.
There are several processes to conduct penetration testing named black box testing, white box testing and gray box testing. In black box penetration testing tester have no idea about the infrastructure to be tested. It’s up to tester to first determine the location before commencing their analysis. In white box penetration testing tester is aware about the infrastructure to be tested which include source code n IP addressing etc. There are several variations between black box and white box testing which is known as gray box penetration testing.
Penetration testing is very valuable because of the following reasons:-
1) It provides the sequence of vulnerabilities from higher risk to lower risk.
2) It identifying the vulnerabilities which cannot be determined by the automated network or scanning software.
3) By this testing we can test the ability of detecting and responding to the attacks of network defenders.

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Torrid Networks is a global leader in the information security services. Our strong leadership and passion for information security helped us build unique onsite–offshore service delivery model combined with unparalleled culture of customer satisfaction. To know more about info sec or pen test kindly visit:- http://www.torridnetworks.com

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