Why Scanning is Essential for Your Business: Protecting Your Assets, Reputation, and Trust
Why Scanning is Essential for Your Business: Protecting Your Assets, Reputation, and Trust
Cybersecurity is becoming an increasing need to all businesses as today's digital age demands more business to be conducted online. As the digital business landscape grows, so too does the attack surface. Conducting regular scans isn’t an option anymore, it’s a fundamental business practice! Here’s why it’s essential for safeguarding your business, customers, and reputation.
The Importance of Scanning
1. Identifying Vulnerabilities Before Attackers Do
Conducting regular scans can help you identify existing vulnerabilities in your systems before attackers do. This proactive security measure can help you avoid attacks entirely by cutting off the entry points before they can be discovered and acted upon by malicious attackers. This significantly reduces the risk of breaches, data theft, and other cyber threats that could otherwise cause substantial financial loss and damages to your business’s reputation.
2. Minimizing Damage from Attacks
Scanning can also reveal suspicious activity in your networks and digital infrastructure. Catching it early can help you and your business mitigate the scale and damages of an attack. The smaller the damages, the less loss of clientele trust your business will suffer.
3. Building Client Trust
Customer trust in your business and its ability to keep their data safe is integral to running a successful business. By investing in regular security scans, you're demonstrating a commitment to cybersecurity. A well-secured system leads to increased client trust and protects your brand’s reputation.
4. Scanning Is Cost-Effective
While security scanning may seem like an additional expense, it is a cost-saving measure in the long run. Preventing a breach is far less expensive than dealing with the aftermath of an attack, including potential lawsuits, heavy fines, and lost business. Just look at any major security breach this year! Scanning your systems and fixing vulnerabilities before they’re exploited is a proactive approach that saves you much more than reactive measures would.
The Dangers of Cyberattacks: What Could Happen?
Some of the common types of attacks businesses face include ransomware, phishing attacks, SQL injection, and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). By scanning your systems regularly, you can identify and address weaknesses that could leave you vulnerable to these types of attacks.
Failing to perform regular security scans opens the door to potential security breaches and attacks. The risks of neglecting cybersecurity are high, ranging from financial loss to irreparable damage to your clients trust and your business’s image. Additionally, you can face hefty fines, legal consequences, and loss of business for failing to comply with security regulations imposed by your country of operation.
If your business is part of the European Economic Area (EEA) which includes all countries part of the European Union and Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein, neglecting cyber security can lead to a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violation. The maximum fine for this is 20 million euros or 4% of your annual turnover, whichever value is higher1.
If your business is in Canada, neglecting cyber security can lead to a Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) violation, which can result in a fine of up to $100,0002.
If your business is in the USA, neglecting cyber security can lead to a California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) violation, which can result in a maximum $2500 to $7500 fine per security breach, depending on if the breach was unintentional or intentional3.
Our Services
Investing in regular security scanning helps businesses avoid costly breaches and build trust with customers. It’s a small investment that pays off significantly by preventing attacks, mitigating the effects of attacks, and demonstrating your commitment to securing your clients’ data.
At Idextrus, partnered with Halo Security, we can provide you and your business a range of different scans to secure your business’s digital infrastructure.
1. Firewall Scanning
We scan your business’s ports, servers and any internet-accessible points to monitor and reduce your attack surface, ensuring your firewall is correctly configured and up-to-date.
2. Website Scanning
Website scanning monitors certificates, scripts, cookies, headers, forms, downloads, links, traffic hosts, meta tags, and pages and alerts you to any updates, malicious content, and anomalies to safeguard your website from common threats and keeping your clients protected.
3. Technology Scanning
Technology scanning monitors third-party tech integrations and ensures they are regularly updated. We notify you of versions with vulnerabilities, so you can patch them before attackers exploit them.
4. Server Scanning
We scan and monitor your servers to detect any vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit. By addressing these issues early, you reduce the chances of an attack that could compromise your systems.
5. Application Scanning
Application scanning scans your code so you can find and address security holes and weaknesses before attackers do, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. With these issues identified and resolved before a potential launch, or even while you're in operation, you’ll have a much more secure product for your customers.
Need help with your business's security?
If you’re ready to take your business’s security to the next level, contact us to book a security scan with us today and start protecting your assets, reputation, and bottom line.
Idextrus offers a white-glove, high-quality service offering for all the scans mentioned in this article. These can be found here.
By making scanning an integral part of your business's security strategy, you’re not just preventing attacks—you’re setting yourself up for long-term success!
