I believe in network assessment as a data point in determining how well a network might tolerate varying attacks with different goals, skills and resources.
Nothing is farther from the truth.
But that's another story for another time. So, if you have plans to perform your own network assessment or to hire an outside consulting firm to do it, there is a fair amount of homework to do before you actually begin the process. This series of articles covers some of the preliminaries before actually beginning the time-consuming and often, expensive process. Winn Schwartau is a security maven, writer and speaker. His team provides extensive security consulting on three continents.