Hackers and secret services don’t hack a server like in the movies anymore. It is a lot easier: Hundreds of new vulnerabilities appear daily and hackers use fully automatic tools to find them. As it is very easy to handle such tools, the amount of potential sources of attacks is tremendous.

The only protection against those attacks is by executing professional penetration tests periodically. Those are very costly and time consuming and offer just a current snapshot. Five minutes after the test the security status can be a completely different one! Further more there are questions like:

• Did you consider every entry possibility?
• How about your providers and / or suppliers?
• Do they comply with the consented safety standards and are they allowed to be scanned for vulnerabilities at all?

Therefore IT security is becoming a constantly increasing problem – for all of us!