Reduce Your Cyber Security Risks with Penetration Testing Services

A penetration test or pen-test refers to the ethical hacking service, a pre-approved simulation of a real cyber-attack on a network or web application or system, that evaluates both weaknesses as well as strengths of a system when confronted with a cyber-attack. The benefits of this authorized cyber treat simulations are vast, as your in-house team may not always be aware of the constantly evolving cyber-vulnerabilities, digital and web risks.

For example, in the context of specifically a web application or system security, pen-testing is used to continually augment a web application or system firewall for example. Pen-testing services may include the tentative breaching of any of your application systems like application protocol interfaces (APIs), frontend/backend computer systems, to find weaknesses, like unsecured inputs and vulnerabilities.

A penetration test target is a white package (which gives back ground and system information) or black box (which supplies only standard or no information except the company title). A gray industry penetration test is an assortment of both (where limited understanding of the mark is shared with the auditor). A penetration test can validate whether a cyber-penetration method is susceptible to hit when defenses was indeed adequate, and which defenses (if any) the pen-test defeated.

Security breaches that the penetration test uncovers are reported towards the system owner or administrator. To reduce your cyber security risks, the penetration test reports may also examine the security effects of the cyber-attack toward your company and advise optimum countermeasures (services, systems or solutions) to scale back the exposed threat.

1. Planning, gathering data, defining the objectives of a test, like the framework and methods to be used for the pentest.
2. Scanning for vulnerabilities using various penetration attempts via static and dynamic analysis.
3. To uncover the vulnerabilities of your web application the pen-testing team will try to gain unauthorized access to your system, to prove the system risk. Some examples of gaining access are gaining system privileges, SQL injections, stealing data, diverting website traffic.
4. In this stage, the testing team will try to maintain the vulnerability state of the system, to get in-depth access imitating advanced persistent threat to your network or systems. There are countless examples of long-term company exposure to threats, seamless to the overall security team but presenting a insurmountable risk value once they were discovered.
5. Reporting the actual positive results of the vulnerabilities and cyber-risk assessment outlines the uncovered threat, the exposed sensitive data and information from your network, mobile or digital assets and how long such a situation can persist with your system as an undetected threat.

You company security officer or team evaluate the report findings and patch your system to protect it against real web cyber-attacks, application security risk or network threat.

Pen-testing are a critical component of your cyber security systems assesments. Standard frameworks for conducting penetration and vulnerability testing are

• the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM),
• the Information System Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF)
• the OWASP Testing Guide.
• the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES),
• the NIST Special Publication 800-115.