Security Assessment
The security assessment activity, organized in two main tasks named Vulnerability Assessment (analysis by automatic instruments of an informatics infrastructure) and Penetration Test (vulnerability manual analysis with real proof about access possibility), propose through vulnerability systematic research in a system or in a network, to furnish an objective evaluation about the deployed protection security measures level and clear indications about first countermeasures to carry out in order to limit intrusion threats, violation and services break. Goal of a Security Assessment is to collect all information’s that could interrupt a service or permit client’s systems intrusions, working with a methodology borrowed usually used from hacker through specific tests (intrusive or not). This activity can be performed even in “Configuration Audit” modality, or in passive modality starting from system configurations in order to cover the verify even about sensible and complex platform, like SCADA systems or national level backbones.
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