SecurityMetrics Now Scans for Over 50,000 External Network Vulnerabilities

OREM, UT, June 14, 2012 (Press-News.org) In its sixth year of being qualified as an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), SecurityMetrics now scans business, merchant, and home networks for over 50,000 external network vulnerabilities. SecurityMetrics maintains its list of vulnerabilities through rigorous updates of its proprietary scans engines, manual vulnerability verification, and expert analysis of over 4 million SecurityMetrics scans.

When SecurityMetrics Vulnerability Scanning engines expose weaknesses that may allow criminals to exploit a business' sensitive data through malicious attacks, (i.e., backdoors, remote access, SQL injection) SecurityMetrics' Technical Support team provides remediation assistance to help businesses repair network weaknesses. The daily attention SecurityMetrics Vulnerability Scanning engineers devote to tuning SecurityMetrics' scan engines significantly reduces false positives (inaccurate identification of vulnerabilities common in scanning technology today).

"New ways to unlawfully access business networks are discovered by criminals daily," said SecurityMetrics Director of Scan Services, Nathan Stocks. "That's why it's crucial to ensure our scans are as thorough and fine-tuned as possible. We want merchants to remain secure and not waste their time with false positives."

SecurityMetrics provides both external and internal vulnerability assessment scans for over 1.5 million businesses around the globe. For more information about SecurityMetrics Vulnerability Scanning services, contact SecurityMetrics at productinfo@securitymetrics.com or call 801-705-5656.

About SecurityMetrics (www.securitymetrics.com)
SecurityMetrics assists in protecting electronic commerce and payments leaders, global acquirers, and their retail customers from security breaches and data theft. The company is a leading provider and innovator in merchant data security and compliance, and as an Approved Scanning Vendor and Qualified Security Assessor, has helped over 1 million organizations manage PCI DSS compliance and/or secure their network infrastructure, data communication, and other information assets. Founded in October 2000, SecurityMetrics is a privately held company headquartered in Orem, Utah, USA.