Penetration Testing
Penetration testing, or simulated hacking, of your website, network infrastructure, mobile apps, IoT devices, and even physical security. Allowing you to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities before it’s too late.
Penetration testing is a great way to identify vulnerabilities, protect your data, and meet security requirements. In our digital world, technology is becoming more advanced and integrated into our working lives. These can, of course, have huge benefits, but they can also leave our businesses vulnerable.
Just like you perform scheduled fire drills at your place of work to ensure your alarms are working and your team knows the correct procedure, a penetration test is the same process for your systems and networks. Delivered by our team of CREST-certified ethical hackers, we cut the faff, the jargon, and keep penetration testing as it should be . . . simple!
Penetration testing helps you…
Identify holes in your security
Protect data from hackers
Meet required security standards
Penetration testing tools for your business
Our penetration testing services must constantly evolve to counter emerging hacking strategies. That’s why we work at Lancaster University, recognised as the Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, with committed support from a global network of security professionals, academics, auditors, and certification bodies.
When you take out a penetration testing service with us, be rest assured that our experts will be on-hand to ensure your systems and networks are running as they should be. We provide an honest, real-world view of where and how attackers can exploit weaknesses in your devices, people, and processes. By simulating real-world attack scenarios, we can
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Frequently Asked Questions
Penetration testing is the process of assessing the security level of a system, network, or process to identify vulnerabilities before cyber criminals do. Through ethical hackers, we perform a controlled cyber attack on the scoped assets and show you where and how we gained access to devices and data. This allows you to then remediate these detected vulnerabilities, transforming your business into a resilient force against cyber attacks and data breaches.
From a variety of asset testing services available, we also offer different methodologies with penetration testing:
- ‘White Box’ penetration testing involves providing the ethical hacker will full network and system information, giving the most thorough evaluation.
- ‘Grey Box’ penetration testing involves providing the ethical hacker with limited information – simulating an authentic insider threat attack.
- ‘Black Box’ penetration testing involves providing the ethical hacker with no information at all on your systems and networks – simulating an authentic cyber criminal attack.
Before any testing takes place, you will have a 1-2-1 scoping session with one of our Security Consultants to discover what approach would work best for your business.
A penetration test can be performed on virtually anything that connects to the internet, identifying vulnerabilities to remediate risk. Depending on the asset(s) that are being testing, the approach may change slightly, however, the typical penetration testing process can be summarised in just five steps:
- Provide our team with information on assets in-scope that require testing.
- Our Security Consultants (ethical hackers) will then assess the in-scope assets and identify vulnerabilities.
- Controlled attacks are performed by exploiting vulnerabilities on the assets to gain access.
- Our Security Consultants will see whether they can compromise as many privilege accounts and systems as they can whilst maintaining access.
- Following the test, you will receive a full report along with an in-depth 1-2-1 discussion to explain the findings and remediation steps.
Our team of licensed, CREST-certified Security Consultants – aka, ethical hackers.
