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Do I need a vulnerability assessment?
Posted by David Law in Hosting Essentials on November 25, 2012 with No Comments
The CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) database includes over 59,000 known information security threats. While the techniques used to access your data or alter website code vary greatly, a security breach usually has one of these aims:
- Database access and the theft or corruption of personal or sensitive data
- Altering website code in order to change what users see
- Intercepting personal and sensitive data
- Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that render services unavailable
If you’re thinking about having a security expert or your hosting provider evaluate your website or server vulnerability, here are a few questions to ask yourself in order to help you decide.
