An External Access Assessment investigates the accessibility and vulnerability of client hosts and / or networks from the Internet. This initial security assessment is performed remotely and consists of the following components:
Assessment Scope
In the assessment scope phase of the project, a Friendware Security Consultant will evaluate the client environment in order to determine the components host and or networks that need to be tested. The consultant will take in to account host and network performance impacts, data safety integrity, and assessment scheduling considerations.
Target Determination
Friendware Security Consultants will perform a determination of target hosts and or networks to be included in the assessment. This can include hosts on external internal, access, and service networks. Target hosts may also include security devices firewalls, routers, web servers, Database Servers, FTP servers, MAIL servers, DNS servers, etc.

Public Information Research
The assessment includes research on the client's domain names to determine whether excessive information is used that could compromise or bypass security posture is being divulged. This information may lead to additional hosts that should be considered targets to be included in the assessment.
Host Service Scan
The host service scan function of the assessment performs a scan of all Internet accessible Services on target hosts. The results may be used to identify vulnerabilities, unnecessary services or services that should not be accessible from the Internet. If there is a security device that is protecting the target host or network, the results of this scan will be limited by the filtering performed by the security device. In this way, the scan provides an indirect indication of the security device's effectiveness.
Service Vulnerability Scan
After the Host Service Scan, a Friendware Security Consultant will provide an evaluation of the services that are accessible from the Internet. The evaluation will look for known security vulnerabilities on the target hosts. These vulnerabilities include potential abuses and exploits that may provide un authorized privileged access or cause disruption to services otherwise normally used protocols.
Scan Reports & Interpretation
The Friendware Security Security Consultant will provide the client with the following 
assessment reports:

1.        Detailed and summary results of all assessment components
2.        References to further service and vulnerability information
3.        Recommendations on improving the security of the assessed hosts and or networks

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