Penetration Testing + Ethical Hacking

Penetration testing is used to exploit the areas in your Infrastructure. It takes the life form of a threat actor and really helps identify how to seal the holes in your environment. In the testing activities, we discover information about your organization found on the internet as it helps us understand your environment before we start our exercises. Once we have fingerprinted your internal and external attack surface, we then review the ways that we can exploit the vulnerabilities. 

A Penetration Test is much different than a vulnerability scan because it takes those vulnerabilities that were discovered and takes it a step further by trying to exploit them. In the exploitation process, it could use a vulnerability to gain access to systems and provide mitigation assistance to close that exploit/risk. 

Some benefits a Penetration test provides:

• Finds public information about your organization
• Helps reduce cyber-attacks by sharing exploits as a threat actor would
• Provides visualize of the methods used for an attack
• Improve asset management
• Understand third party or supply chain risks
• Provides best practices for configurations and overall environment