Penetration Testing
In an era where cyber threats continue to grow in complexity, penetration testing has become an essential component of a robust cybersecurity strategy. Penetration testing, often referred to as ethical hacking, is a proactive approach to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure, web applications & mobile applications (Android & iOS). This process helps protect your business assets, ensure compliance with international standards, and build trust with customers.
Penetration Testing is a systematic approach to evaluating the security posture of organizations and businesses by identifying vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. The goal is to simulate real-world cyber-attacks with a specific test scope, to uncover and exploit weaknesses and provide actionable insights into security measures to reduce the risk of cyber-attacks.
Key objectives of penetration testing:
- Identify security weaknesses before attackers do.
- Validate the effectiveness of existing security controls.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards such as OWASP-WSTG, OWASP-MASTG, OSSTM, and others.
- Enhance overall resilience against potential threats.
Our Methodology:
Our penetration testing services follow a systematic, internationally recognized methodology to ensure thorough and reliable results. The methodology is built on frameworks such as the OWASP Top Ten, OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, and OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG). Below are the key phases:
- Scope Determination
- Reconnaissance and Mapping
- Vulnerability Identification
- Vulnerability Exploitation
- Reporting and Recommendations
- - An executive summary for non-technical stakeholders.
- - Full list of vulnerabilities with risk ratings.
- - Technical evidence of findings.
- - Customized recommendations for remediation.
- Re-pentest
We collaborate with your team to define test boundaries, objectives, and deliverables. This includes defining the systems and applications to be tested, ensuring alignment with your business and organizational priorities.
In this phase, we gather information about the target environment. This includes open source intelligence (OSINT), network scanning, and service enumeration to build a comprehensive understanding of the attack surface.
Using advanced tools and manual techniques such as XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection, we identify potential vulnerabilities in the target system. These include misconfigurations, outdated software, weak authentication mechanisms, and insecure code.
Our experts simulate real-world attacks to exploit identified vulnerabilities, demonstrating the potential impact of an actual breach. This phase is conducted with the utmost care to prevent disruption to your operations.
We provide a detailed report that includes:
Once the vulnerabilities have been resolved, we perform a retest to validate the effectiveness of the remediation efforts and ensure all issues have been resolved.
Types of Penetration Testing
We offer different types of penetration testing customized to meet your specific needs:
- Black Box Testing
- Gray Box Testing
- White Box Testing
Testers have no prior knowledge of the system (Without any authentication and authorization). Simulates an attack by an external hacker and focuses on outward-facing assets such as web applications and network entry points.
Testers have partial knowledge of the system by combining internal and external perspectives (authentication and limited access authorization) to identify vulnerabilities and use the Ideal way to evaluate insider threats and external attacks simultaneously.
Testers have full knowledge of the system (authentication and authorization with full access) including architecture and source code by providing a comprehensive evaluation of security controls.