Return to the top of the page. What is the difference between the Internal – VISTA and the External – VISTA?
The External – VISTA tests your financial institution’s connection to the Internet to ensure that your firewall is properly configured to prevent unauthorized intrusion from hackers. The Internal – VISTA tests your financial institution’s internal network that includes your servers, firewalls, routers, and workstations to prevent unauthorized intrusion from insiders. To perform the Internal – VISTA, we ship you the pre-programmed scanner box that attaches to your network like a workstation. Scanner box. Click to enlarge. Return to the top of the page. We outsource our network administration duties to an independent vendor. Why wouldn’t their vulnerability test be considered independent? Since your vendor probably designed your computer security, the vendor would not be considered independent. In addition, the vendor probably sells software and hardware. R. Kinney Williams & Associates are strictly IS security auditors and do not sell software or hardware. Return to the top of the page.
