Penetration Testing

An enterprise IT environment can never be completely secure, but by taking prudent steps to minimize your vulnerabilities, you can greatly enhance your security posture. By having a confidential, independent assessment of your IT environment, you can provide a higher level of security against inevitable attacks and help prioritize your finite IT resources.

Securing your corporate IT resources requires due diligence and determining the level of exposure of your IT assets is not a trivial exercise. It requires an iterative security methodology that includes vulnerability assessments combined with penetration testing. Penetration testing is a method of probing and identifying security vulnerabilities in your network and pinpointing where your IT environment can be exploited by a hacker. The threats can be both internal and external and security industry experts recommend performing both internal and external penetration tests.

How Indusface Helps You With Penetration Testing

While some portions of technical penetration testing can be automated, it is recommended that all tests be augmented with the empirical knowledge of security analysts. Indusface security analysts offer perspective on industry standards, coding practices, malware and attack trends, and a knowledge of current known vulnerabilities. Capitalizing on their expertise, a through risk analysis can be developed to evaluate the level of risk to your most critical assets and create a prioritized list of threats. Vulnerability assessments with penetration testing help close potential openings, so your business can withstand attacks.

Our security specialists are, among other things, highly trained differentiators capable of quickly assessing the validity of various tool’s results and consolidating the different reporting formats into a cohesive prioritized summary. In addition, in many instances, testing dictates that custom assessment tools be written on behalf of your business. This can be because of an in-house application or a network configuration that confuses an off-the-shelf tool. The flexibility to tailor your testing to your specific environment in an iterative fashion is the most compelling reason to bring in a security consultant armed with an array of specialized security assessment tools. Hackers have the advantage of human intervention, shouldn’t your security measures benefit from the same advantage?

Knowledge is power and by emulating a hacker attack, your business will be more prepared to withstand attack. Our Security specialists use the absolute best of breed open source and commercial tools to feed their analytical process. Their approach is holistic; collecting data from different angles with specialized assessment tools, thus increasing the validity and depth of your test results. Our analysts will take the time to eliminate the false positives, interpret the data, contextualize the results, and give you a prioritized actionable summary with step-by-step recommendations based on security best practices for your industry. Our security consulting team utilizes multi-step Open Source Security Testing Methodology (OSSTMM) to assess your security posture. Marrying the results of these tests with the consultants’ experience gives you a comprehensive view of your vulnerabilities.