5 Signs Your Business Needs VAPT Immediately

Businesses relying on digitalisation for continuous growth and competitive advantage are more prone to face threats and attacks from cyber criminals. 

VAPT (vulnerability assessment and penetration testing) has remarkably emerged as a proactive solution to identify known security vulnerabilities and fix them to prevent potential threats.

A pathbreaker in the realm of cybersecurity, VAPT has become increasingly crucial to prevent cyberattacks from relentlessly growing in numbers. This is because of a good number of businesses (60% of SMBs) closing down due to cyberattacks in just six months of inception.
The above could be an instance that highly recommends considering VAPT needs for your business. Here, In this blog, we will share the major signs that mandate your business to adopt VAPT.

5 Signs That Your Business Urgently Needs VAPT 

Here are the five most pressing signs that require you to consider VAPT immediately for your business.

1. Frequent Security Breaches or Attempted Attacks

VAPT isn’t just a technical concern, but more of a critical need for businesses embracing technology.  

Frequent security breaches or potential/attempted attacks are signs that your business should seriously (and immediately) consider VAPT.

Phishing attacks, ransomware, and malware have been known to primarily target small-scale businesses. The fact that SMBs do not have proper cyberdefense strategies in place serves as the main reason behind being attacked.  So, If you are one that owns an SMB, it would be worth enough for you to consider integrating security practices into your business goals.
It would also be good for SMBs like you to be intuitive about the security stance of your business. Well thought is half done anyways! Thinking about the cost of implementing VAPT, it would be nothing bigger than what you can incur if you fail to.
Speak with our cybersecurity experts at Wattlecorp to know about the relative costs of undertaking VAPT requirements for SMBs. Book a free consultation today!

Also Read: What is VAPT ?

How VAPT Helps Identify Vulnerabilities Before Hackers Do?

If identified security vulnerabilities are promptly addressed and remediated through VAPT security assessment, this can prove genuinely beneficial for businesses -specifically SMBs like yours. You can achieve enhanced security for both your IT and OT systems.

Acting like real-world hackers to assessing, exploiting, mitigating, and remediating potential vulnerabilities and the risks associated with them is the key to strengthening security posture for your business  

As stated earlier, SMBs, can genuinely benefit from investing in comprehensive VAPT assessments. By doing so, they not only experience lasting security, but also enhance their reputation in the future. Again, forget about the costs involved, instead think about the increased VAPT ROI you can derive as an SMB when boosting your cybersecurity strategy!

2. Handling Sensitive Customer or Business Data

Industries like finance, healthcare, and e-commerce are prime targets for cybercriminals. Handling sensitive customer and business data are prime to the operations of these businesses, However, due to a lack of expert handling of the same, there is a significant chance for data leaks and data breaches.

How VAPT Can Help Prevent Data Breaches and Protect Sensitive Information

Go through the following methods to understand how undertaking VAPT assessment can help you prevent data breaches and eventually protect sensitive information for your business:

• Identifying Vulnerabilities: Undertakes profound scanning to detect potential security flaws, such as (insecure coding practices or misconfigurations) to prevent hacker exploitation.
• Prioritising Risks: Involves identifying, assessing, prioritising, and addressing vulnerabilities based on their severity and impact.
• Simulating Real-World Attacks: VAPT simulates cyberattacks by conducting penetration testing. This helps ascertain how well attackers can exploit security vulnerabilities to gain access to sensitive data.
• Remediation: VAPT offers guidance for the remediation of vulnerabilities by providing detailed reports to mitigate them. The remediation process involves actionable steps, such as updating security configurations, encrypting software’s source code and patching software.

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3. Unsecured Remote Work Environment

While the remote work environment has significantly altered the way one does business, there lies a significant risk for security breach to occur. With remote work and the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) culture trending nowadays, these simultaneously increase security risks.

Employees’ potential to access sensitive company data on their devices with unsecured networks makes enough room for vulnerabilities. The result? Unauthorised access, data breaches, and malware follow right away.

Weak passwords and unpatched software also give way to threats. With many other threat factors related to BYOD, these can significantly tamper a company’s security controls.

How VAPT Helps Secure Remote Work Environment

Identifying Vulnerabilities in Remote Access Points: Ensures secure connections for remote workers (including those utilising BYOD) by scanning for weaknesses in remote desktop protocols, weaknesses in VPNs, and other remote access tools.

• Assessing Home Network Security: Identifies potential vulnerabilities (including weak passwords or outdated firmware) by analysing the security posture of home WiFi networks.
• Evaluating Personal Device Security: Scanning employees’ home devices for vulnerabilities (operating systems, applications, and network configurations) to highlight potential risks.
• Simulating Real-World Attacks: Undertaking pen tests to simulate cyberattacks and assessing the capabilities of security measures to withstand real-world threats in a remote environment.
• Prioritising Security Patches: VAPT reports help prioritise critical vulnerabilities. This allows IT teams to determine which security issue requires patching first.

4. Sudden System Slowdowns – Unusual Network Activity?

Instances, such as unexpected downtimes, slow system response, or frequent crashes hold potential for possible cyber intrusions. Also, unrecognised logins, increased bandwidth usage, or unknown processes running tend to aggravate risks for attacks.

How VAPT Helps Secure Network

Securing your network with VAPT involves a comprehensive process. Let’s see what these involve: 

• Checking Firewall Configuration: Testing the firewall configuration to optimise performance and security.
• Detecting Unauthorised Devices: Scanning and identifying for any unauthorised device connection to prevent malicious access of sensitive data.
• Identifying Vulnerable Network Services: Detecting and highlighting vulnerable services running on your infrastructure helps organisations disable them, thus enhancing network security.
• Strengthening Security for Remote Access: Involves assessing VPN security and other remote access solutions to identify weaknesses in VPN configurations and outdated encryption protocols.
• Enhancing Network Monitoring: VAPT reports help improve and enhance network monitoring by assessing logins. This makes way for early detection and response to security incidents.

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5. Compliance Audits 

Every business – large or small – must abide by regulatory compliance by aptly meeting compliance requirements. These regulations may be specific to an industry or nation. They may also be expected to comply with the regulations, laws, and standards concerned with the country they are doing business with.

While these compliance requirements may not impose challenges, the need to keep updated on the changing regulations with time may indeed prove difficult. This situation can become complicated for businesses operating in multiple countries because they will need to follow the laws and regulations prevailing there.

VAPT’s Role In Ensuring Regulatory Compliance For Businesses

Understanding the implications of conflicts between country-specific regulations can help businesses stay compliant with applicable regulatory standards. VAPT’s involvement in this regard is crucial as could be explained below:

Identifying Vulnerabilities and Undertaking Penetration Testing

Involves a systematic scan of an organisation’s systems to identify potential vulnerabilities, such as misconfigurations, weak passwords, unencrypted coding, etc.

Since these depict critical compliance issues, they are meant to be addressed then and there to prevent data breaches.

VAPT performs penetration tests on security vulnerabilities to assess how easily these can be exploited. By highlighting areas needing improvement, VAPT also helps achieve compliance – thus playing a crucial role in these matters.

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• Assessing and Mitigating Non-compliance Risks 

Expert vulnerability identification and prioritisation by assessing risk severity very effectively helps mitigate risks associated with regulatory non-compliance.

• Avoiding Hefty Non-compliance Penalties

VAPT helps companies and industries stay compliant with regulations, such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and SOC 2. 

Through ensuring data protection by preventing sensitive information leak, VAPT integration enables businesses to steer clear of severe penalties and reputational damage. This results in achieving effective and trustworthy vendor collaboration. It also has much to do with clearing security audits.

Do keep in mind that VAPT, besides being employed for security, is also about achieving and ensuring compliance.

Conclusion

There’s an urgent need for VAPT to strengthen business security for SaaS providers  Regularly undertaking VAPT will not only ensure your business security but will also help it stay compliant with industry-cum-country-specific regulations.

At Wattlecorp, we’ve been recognised for our efficiency in offering top-notch cybersecurity services in India, Kerala, Bangalore, the US, and the UAE. The positive testimonials we have received from our clients, also include SaaS providers, who’ve commended us for the extensive VAPT assessments we have helped perform. Our team of vibrant and expert cybersecurity professionals have their way of conducting VAPT in all its efficacy and efficiency.

In short, our success is the success of those we have helped effectuate security processes with no loopholes. Connecting with clients for the services we delivered is one of our greatest achievements as these convey the trust they have for us.

Consider going through the deep testing source code that our certified pentesters performed recently. The move behind this effort was not only to improve code quality by securing source code in the code base, but also to scale them for business prosperity, reputation, and above all, help adhere with legal compliance.

• Has your business ever come across any of the 5 above-mentioned security-cum-compliance issues or risks? If so, start availing of VAPT service with Wattlecorp for deriving optimum security, compliance, and credibility.
• Strong and regular cybersecurity measures are what matters the most. Wattlecorp’s cybersecurity professionals are there to guarantee the level of security you need.
• Before it gets too late and you lose your opportunity to scrupulously secure your business with us, act now and Schedule a VAPT Assessment today. 

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