Businesses that use managed IT services in Albuquerque do so to ensure that important IT processes and policies are implemented in compliance with standards. IT security is a top priority in the modern-day business world in which cyber breaches are, increasingly, prevalent. For savvy business owners, managed services are their go-to solution for mitigating security breaches, which lead to disruptions.
One of the primary ways to secure your business is by running periodic security assessments to detect vulnerabilities and threats. Periodic security scans help you to meet compliances requirements, detect security risks, and devise a corrective action to safeguard your IT systems. Here are the top reasons why you need to carry out periodic security scans:
Evolving Security Threats
While cyberattacks are on the top radar of security measures offered by managed IT services providers in Albuquerque, hackers are ever inventing new methods of attacking your IT systems. For instance, if you have online directories of your suppliers, vendors or executive staff, hackers will use this for social engineering attacks. To assess such threats, you must scan the web for engineered social profiles or websites that may trick customers or your employees into sharing sensitive information with them.
Thus, you need to ensure your staff is continuously trained and updated on how to deal with such threats before they occur. Otherwise, you will experience loss of critical data, disruptions in day-to-day operations, and loss of revenue.
Better Formulation of IT Policies
The chief reason that MSPs encourage periodic security checks is to have in-depth knowledge of the level of security you have and how best to improve it. They serve as a benchmark of what protection you have and best security practices to employ. If your periodic security assessment reveals that your password management is out of date, then, you have to revise your IT policy and enforce complex passwords that can withstand a password-cracking software.
The same applies to your virus management approach and access authorization for critical network resources. If your measures to stop a virus attack from infiltrating your computer networks can be overrun by a physical entry into your server room, a periodic assessment will help you detect it and fix it.
As for access authorization, the privileges assigned to user accounts will be tested for vulnerability to hacking attempts. Then, you can fix any flaws reported by restricting user privileges to limited segments of your internal network resources. Doing so allows you to deal with security problems in a preventative approach and preventing them from occurring.
Comprehensive Organizational Security Measures
Periodic security assessments reveal weakness in both the technical aspects and human resource risks to give you a complete report on all security threats you face. They help you identify all areas that need corrective action. For example, reporting and documenting suspicious emails, an analysis of the use of encryption to secure communications channels and whether you are keeping up with software-patches as required. With this information, you can set up comprehensive security measures for the entire organization.
At Net Sciences, Inc., we offer security consulting services as an extension of our managed IT services in Albuquerque. Contact us to learn how we can help to secure your IT systems.
