Whois & Analysis for thedigitrustgroup.com

Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information.

It is a general term that can be used regardless of the form the data may take (e.g. electronic, physical).

A penetration test, colloquially known as a pen test, is an authorised simulated attack on a computer system that looks for security weaknesses, potentially gaining access to the system's features and data.

A vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing (or ranking) the vulnerabilities in a system.

Examples of systems for which vulnerability assessments are performed include, but are not limited to, information technology systems, energy supply systems, water supply systems, transportation systems, and communication systems.

Such assessments may be conducted on behalf of a range of different organizations, from small businesses up to large regional infrastructures.

Vulnerability from the perspective of disaster management means assessing the threats from potential hazards to the population and to infrastructure.

Endpoint security or endpoint protection is a technology that takes an upper hand to protect computer networks that are remotely bridged to users' devices.

The use of laptops, tablets, mobile devices and other wireless gadgets connected with corporate networks creates vulnerability paths for security threats.

Endpoint security attempts to ensure that such devices follow a definite level of compliance and standards.

In computing, managed security services (MSS) are network security services that have been outsourced to a service provider.

A company providing such a service is a managed security service provider (MSSP) The roots of MSSPs are in the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the mid to late 1990’s.

Initially ISPs would sell customers a firewall appliance, as customer premises equipment (CPE), and for an additional fee would manage the customer-owned firewall over a dial-up connection.