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What gets people excited about purchasing an intrusion detection system? Not much. Certainly, fear can be used to sell security devices. But most, mid sized companies are spread thin with their IT staff, they are focused on running their business operations. To spend money to prevent something that has never happened to them would be seen as somewhat foolish. There are a large number of potential threats to a business, security being just one of them.

One expert pointed out recently:

“Sophisticated fraudsters are becoming the norm with data breaches, carder forums, and do it yourself (DIY) crime kits being marketed via the Internet.” Excerpt from fraudwar blog spot.

Thus, getting data stolen happens so often that it can be considered a survivable event, it is the new normal. Your customers are not going to run for the hills, as they have been conditioned to roll with this threat. But there still is a steep cost for such an event. So our staff put our heads together and asked the question… there must be an easy, quantifiable, minimum investment way to objectively evaluate data risk without a giant cluster of data security devices in place, spewing gobs of meaningless drivel.

One of our internal, white knight, hackers pointed out, that in his storied past, he had been able to break into almost any business at will (good thing he is a white knight and does not steal or damage anything). While talking to some of our channel resellers we have also learned that most companies, although aware of outside intrusion, are reluctant to throw money and resources at a potential problem that they can’t easily quantify.

Thus arose an idea for our new offer. For a small refundable retainer fee, we will attempt to break into a customers data systems from the outside. If we can’t get in, then we’ll return the retainer fee. Obviously, if we get in, we can then propose a solution with indisputable evidence of the vulnerability, and if we don’t get in, then the customer can have some level of assurance that their existing infrastructure thwarted a determined break in.