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Devfense Network Security Assessment: Return on Investment
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What is the return on investment for a network security assessment? This will largely depend on the unique revenue model for your business. For most SMBs and enterprise-class operations, a network assessment process that includes a physical walkthrough of facilities, infrastructure investigation, penetration testing, and other measures is essential for maintaining business continuity, protecting customers and maintaining security compliance. Return on investment becomes realized immediately. Engaging professionals provides the benefits of proven methodologies, access to specialized tools, and practical insight, all garnered through experience. Following an engagement, returns are compounded as improved security posture and practices provide repeated cost-savings in IT performance and operations, not to mention the risk mitigation and the avoided costs of a security breach.

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Consider that the chance of a company suffering a data breach resulting from being a victim of the increased attacks of malware and/or, phishing schemes. Penetration into an organization’s IT infrastructure resulting from Trojan viruses and keylogger software (to name just a few tactics) is certain in the absence of security measures.

Most IT departments are too overloaded with user incident support or other essential tasks to commit dedicated effort to devise an approach that will balance the business and governance issues with the IT requirements.

By engaging a security focused partner to assist the organization, companies will have access to a team of professionals, each focused on their area of expertise to develop a reliable solution. Furthermore, when you consider not only the salary of a security specialist but also the IT certifications required to maintain that individual’s skills, and the licensing of tools and software to fulfill their security duties, costs would start upward of $150K. Outsourcing these tasks seems to be the more financially responsible approach.

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