Improving Enterprise Security Through Ethical Hacking Techniques

The best way to find out if your house is secure is to hand over some cash to a thief and let him or her try to break in. Of course, you have to trust the thief. But that's what many . . . The best way to find out if your house is secure is to hand over some cash to a thief and let him or her try to break in. Of course, you have to trust the thief. But that's what many security administrators are letting services companies do to better assess weak points in an enterprise and try to patch potential software holes before real hackers break in.

Qualys Inc. this week launched its flagship service, QualysGuard, which aims to do just that. For a fee, users can let the Sunnyvale, Calif., company periodically try to hack in and then receive the gory details in reports.

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