The importance of testing security controls to ensure they are functioning as expected

Cyber attacks are increasingly sophisticated and are targeting primarily vital infrastructures ad organizations such as health facilities, energy facilities to name a few.

This daunting reality highlights the importance of testing security controls to ensure they are functioning as expected. 

In effect, it’s not enough to install security tools throughout the environment. You must test the policies and procedures to be confident the controls in place will stop or detect real-world intrusions.

The necessary information, such as the locations, department and other critical details are indispensable to quickly identify unauthorized configuration changes to endpoint devices that can indicate an attack in progress.