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Article: Feeling vulnerable? Try assessment tools; APPLICATIONS: Network security.(vulnerability assessment software)
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- Network World
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- April 5, 2004
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Byline: ELLEN MESSMER
Come June, high-volume merchants and payment processors that do business on the Web and want to work with MasterCard International had better be conducting quarterly vulnerability assessments of their Web sites. MasterCard warned last fall that it won't do business with them otherwise.
"We believe the majority of events we read about with worms could be averted through vulnerability assessment," says John Verduschi, vice president of e-business and emerging technologies at MasterCard, which has drawn up a list of a dozen approved network-based scanning services, including Ubizen, its preferred provider.
With an estimated ...