Penetration Testing
Most of the businesses today have multi-tier network architectures, Web services, custom applications and heterogeneous server platform environments. It is becoming increasingly challenging for such businesses to secure their data and information assets. Criminal hacking as well as identity theft activities have evolved over the years and are one of the world’s fastest growing challenges to security concerns faced by today’s businesses. It is important to know that penetration test doesn’t make the network more secure, but it does identify gaps between knowledge and implementation.
Organisations performing penetration testing of IT infrastructure will benefit from the following:
Threat assessment & reporting
– Getting a view of your current IT infrastructure from the hacker’s or malicious user’s perspective.
– Visibility of identified gaps between your understanding & reality in regards to the security state of your IT infrastructure.
– Validation of deployment for IT infrastructure against the industry best practices.
– Project and justify effective targeted expense which will optimise the IT budget spend.
– Minimising the risk of attacks & vulnerabilities targeted towards the IT infrastructure by being proactive & not reactive.
– Discover gaps in compliance required by the target industries
– Securing the IT infrastructure before introducing the new technologies into production.
Our penetration testing service will provide you with immediate results confirming the effectiveness of your network and application security controls, clearly identifying areas where systems can be compromised and how problems can be fixed.
Some of the organisation standards we refer to for aspects of our testing portfolio:
– OWASP (https://www.owasp.org)
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Security standard (Software) of web applications and Web Services.
– PCI (https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org)
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Requirements.
– ISACA (https://www.isaca.org)
IS auditing and IS Control standards adopted by information governance, control, security and audit professionals.
– CREST (http://www.crest-approved.org)
The Council for Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST)
– OSSTMM (http://www.osstmm.org)
The aim of The Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) is to set forth a standard for Internet security testing.
– CHECK (http://www.cesg.gov.uk)
The methodology aims to identify known vulnerabilities in IT systems and networks which may compromise the confidentiality, integrity or availability of information held on that IT system. Mainly adopted by Sensitive government networks and those constituting the GSI (Government Secure Intranet) and CNI (Critical National Infrastructure)
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