Its All About Ethics
What is a hardware firewall? A hardware firewall is a physical device much like a server that filters the traffic going to a computer. While a user would normally plug a network cable directly into a computer or server, with a hardware firewall, the cable is plugged into the firewall first. The firewall sits between…
This article explains the difference between a static and dynamic web page, mainly from vulnerability assessment and penetration testing perspective. From vulnerability assessment perspective, a dynamic page is of two types. In first case consider a page that needs user to login, and fill up some data and submit it to server. While in the…
SYNOPSIS Valency Networks is committed to track the cyber attacks. While catering to our customers for cyber security services we end up gaining a huge amount of insights. This is primarily possible via the vulnerability assessments and cyber forensic services. While focusing on the first quarter of 2021, we realized a paradigm shift in the…
So, you are trying to onboard a new customer, a customer who you have been going after for a while, a customer who can bring good fortune to the organization and then when you are almost certain that the deal is yours, they asks if you are ISO 27001 certified or not. You are not…
Penetration testing is performed on Win 7, Win Server 2008, Ubuntu form Kali being the attacker. All the Penetration test is performed on the Virtual machine by creating a test lab environment setup Win7, Win Server 2008 and Ubuntu on one base machine while Kali installed on a different base machine. In accordance with the…
Introduction If you work in the field of Infosec, you have probably heard of Vulnerability Assessment (VA). VA is a process of identifying security vulnerabilities in a system. Imagine a burglar looking for and identifying different entrances to your building, but not entering. The results of the scan will show how an application, website or…
Soon when the world went in lockdown during pandemic all the business around world made strategies to ensure business continuity and not many but few focused their efforts on security as well. During pandemic all IT and non-IT industries focused on security in employee connecting to company networks remotely or remote accessing of networks. But…
While providing cyber security services such as VAPT and compliances, we come across many customers. Most of those are either IT heads or CxO’s. Not all of those are aware about the world of cyber security, and they have their own ideas about it. During the discussions, we end up providing information on how an…
Fact : It can be more harmful than a help if two separate antivirus are running on the system. Year:2015 Said by “IT Admin of a mid-size Manufacturing company” “We used to be worried about cyber security but not anymore. Instead of one antivirus, now we run two. This goes for desktops, laptops and servers….
Fact : PHP or .NET are not secure by default. Its IT person’s skill to secure those. Year:2014 Said by “CTO of an IT product company” “The sole reason we chose PHP over .Net is because PHP is most secure and yet free. We run a tool against the code occasionally and it never reports…