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What is a Penetration Test?
A penetration test is a cybersecurity assessment process that evaluates a computer system, network, or IT infrastructure’s security by simulating a persistent hacking attempt. The aim of a penetration test is to identify weaknesses, vulnerabilities or entry points a hacker could use to force entry to a digital system.
What Security Weaknesses Do Penetration Tests Seek to Detect?
The goal of a penetration test is to provide a comprehensive assessment of a system or network’s overall security posture. A penetration test could highlight software and operating system vulnerabilities, network vulnerabilities and much more.
Does Penetration Testing Only Evaluate Technical Security Controls?
No, penetration testing can also expose flaws and weaknesses in policy and procedural security measures. Privileged access management practices, Secure password policies and data classification and handling policies are just a few of the many organisational security controls that come under close scrutiny during penetration tests.
What Differentiates a Penetration Test from a Vulnerability Scan?
A vulnerability scan’s purpose is to determine whether known vulnerabilities are present in a system or network. A penetration test on the other hand is a dynamic process whereby a cybersecurity professional uses ingenuity and experience to simulate a forced entry into a digital system.
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The Benefits of Penetration Testing
View Your Security Posture from a Fresh Perspective
Penetration tests are carried out by “ethical hackers,” who will expend every effort to force entry into your digital environment, simulating the tactics used by real hostile threat actors. This affords a unique perspective on your cybersecurity posture, and tests the robustness of security infrastructure without subjecting your environment to real-world security risks.
Prioritize Risks for Remediation
At the end of the penetration test process, you’ll be presented with a report detailing the test’s outcomes in full, as well as a list of actionable recommendations to seal up the vulnerabilities found. This report will grade vulnerabilities according to threat urgency and the scale of impact that would result from a successful exploit. This will allow you to prioritize areas for immediate action and allocate resources effeciently.
Gain a Holistic Overview of Vulnerabilities
Penetration tests take a “whole system” approach to evaluating cybersecurity. This provides a breadth and depth of assessment that no other test exercise can match, assessing technical, procedural and policy-based security controls concurrently.
Test Incident Response Readiness
Penetration testing provides your organization with a valuable opportunity to test its security incident response plan. Test your ability to detect, frustrate, mitigate and neutralize live threats, under simulated conditions that present no risk to network integrity.
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Our Penetration Testing Services
We believe strongly that you should get what you pay for. We pride ourselves in providing well experienced personnel on each engagement. The normal penetration firm uses a highly leveraged model, where clients pay for educating the team through on-the job-training. Not us, Techbudgie typically staffs each engagement with 70% of the team being highly experienced (5-10yrs of penetration testing experience).
Network Penetration Testing
Our engineers assume the role of ethical hackers to probe for weaknesses and test the resilience of your networks. Firewall effectiveness, misconfigurations in ports and services, network device weaknesses and remote access security are just some of the elements that fall within the scope of our extensive network penetration tests.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Our penetration testing company performs security testing on your applications to see if unauthorized users are able to modify data, disclose information or steal logged-in user sessions.
Wireless Penetration Testing
Human error plays a contributory role in the majority of security incidents. We test the cybersecurity awareness of your employees with unannounced test exercises that replicate the coercive and manipulative methods deployed by phishing scammers. We’ll assess how readily employees divulge sensitive, compromising information like account passwords and network access credentials.
Social Engineering Penetration Testing
Human error plays a contributory role in the majority of security incidents. We test the cybersecurity awareness of your employees with unannounced test exercises that replicate the coercive and manipulative methods deployed by phishing scammers. We’ll assess how readily employees divulge sensitive, compromising information like account passwords and network access credentials.