The best solution is a vulnerability detection system that scans automatically and continuously, providing scalable reports immediately on completion of the scan, and finally, one that can sweep your whole system as opposed to small segments. The process of weighting outcomes can further be served by augmenting cognitive, critical reasoning processes with other methods for analyzing both known and unknown data variables representing a set of questions pertaining to risk associated with the outcome of a decision. While it's abundantly clear that analytical methods useful for measuring risk can be applied across all facets of a business, it's of vital importance that it be rigorously applied to network security. Companies and their executives are becoming increasingly aware of the risks confronting their digital borders. These risks include both local and remote attacks.
Local attacks are either deliberate or the result of employee error.
Remote attacks range from an external employee mistakenly trying to access a networked resource without proper authorization, to a hacker or cracker looking to access information to which they have no right. Until now the focus has been to defend the perimeter, and while it's obvious to managers that these threats are real, the response or solution to it is not yet in place. We erect firewalls and deploy intrusion detection systems to serve as sentries and gatekeepers and while the use of this technology is thoroughly in line with the best security practices, it merely represents reactive, not proactive, security measures. To adequately apply risk reduction principles to network security and engage in a more proactive approach, there is a need to cast the net much wider and include processes for increasing visibility and vigilance of the network and all its components. The CEO and executive staff needs to become more familiar with their network, and security should become one of the pillars of organizational attention.