Today’s business owners have to juggle countless things daily. However, their cybersecurity and network shouldn’t be one of their worries. Ideally, every business should have a dedicated IT person on staff or work with a managed service provider (MSP) or both. One of the things that should be part of your IT budget is network penetration testing on your network. This testing helps you know how vulnerable your network is to cyber criminals. And, checking a network just once isn’t enough. Because the criminals change tactics regularly, network penetration testing should be performed regularly. Most recommendations are from several times a year to quarterly.
Why Network Penetration Testing is Essential for Today’s Businesses
Some industries require at least annual testing. This helps ensure customer/client privacy in certain professions. However, because of the increased frequency of cyber attacks on small to medium sized businesses and the losses they suffer, every business should work with an MSP and request network penetration testing. It is one of the only ways to know if and where your network is vulnerable.
How Is Testing Done?
Until recently, the only option was to hire a third party organization who would assign a person to manually try to penetrate (AKA hack) your system. However, as humans, they often missed some of the simplest things or simply didn’t have the experience needed to truly find your network’s weaknesses. As a business owner, you had to schedule this well in advance of needing it. Results often took a few weeks. And, because it was manual, the cost could be prohibitive for some small businesses.
A new option, from VONAHI Security, called VPenTest is automated. Every test that is run is the same as there is a framework of tests. However, as things change, the test is updated. And because of the automation, not only do you receive start and end notifications, but you’ll quickly receive notification of any identified threats for your records. The level of testing is consistently higher than testing performed by a person. It’s also faster, and because of real-time reporting, your IT team or MSP can work quickly to close identified gaps in your network security. And assuming all id as it should be, you remain in compliance for your industry and cyber insurance.
Interested in Learning More? Toucan Technology Group Can Help
As a Kaseya Platinum Partner, we are able to help you with your network penetration testing utilizing the VONAHI Security suite. If you’d like to learn more, we can schedule either a free consultation or demo of their product. Of course, we’re happy to discuss all we can do for your business as a managed service provider in addition to cyber security and network penetration testing. Call us today at (317) 376-4874 or fill out our contact form.
