Monday 21 November 2016

Comparison Between Vulnerability Scanning and Security Audit

With the increased number of cybercrimes, security has become a major concern for every organization. So, IT people are adopting and discovering various new techniques for beating these threats and viruses that either harm the system or steal confidential and sensitive information. There are various products that are available in market to safeguard the system and data stored in the system. However, in order to make system secure and safe, one needs to make sure that those products are capable of keeping the system safe. 

Vulnerability Scanning


It is a process to detect all the threatening vulnerabilities that could harm the system and data in a bad way.

This type of scanning is aimed at evaluating the security of hardware, software, network and system. Every organization wants to keep their systems and networks safe and secure from any kind of vulnerabilities. To perform the vulnerability scanning, an organization needs a scanning tool that could identify both high risk vulnerabilities and low risk vulnerabilities as well.

Security audit


Security audit takes place generally when someone checks the criteria to see whether the company is following proper security regulations, policy and meeting with legal responsibilities or not. There are various types of criteria available to carry out the security audit i.e. there are various types of the security audits. While doing security audit, an auditor must make sure that the critical files and folders on the system are safe and secure and have correct configurations. A security audit is to look for the vulnerabilities and risks in the system.


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