ETHICAL HACKING – PENETRATION TEST
Sophisticated cyberattacks constantly evolve and can easily avoid detection, hide their malicious activity, and exploit seemingly insignificant vulnerabilities. Simulating an attack under controlled conditions is probably the best way to realize how intruders could approach your external perimeter, internal network, Wireless network, VoIP, and applications such as Mobile apps, Web-based, or client-based and also reveal the actual risk posed to your company by a potential compromise. An Ethical Hacking Exploitation exercise is a simulation of real-world attacks that involves authorized persons use of attacking methods simulating hostile intruders’ techniques. Such exercises are using the same tools and techniques as an adversary might. Odyssey’s Ethical Hacking Exploitation exercises help you optimize your return on investment while offering highly customized and tailored solutions that suit your individual needs.
4.1. Penetration Test
Our team performs penetration testing to ensure that backing infrastructure and operations meet the highest security standards. The ultimate target of Penetration Testing is to pinpoint application layer, network, and system-level flaws as well as opportunities to endanger physical security barriers. Forethnics PenTesters carry out various types of Penetration Testing by having a deep view of the organization network, applications, devices, and physical security.
After the Penetration Test is accomplished, Forethnics will be able to point out the vulnerabilities of the organization system(s) which a malicious user can target and the several ways where a malicious individual may exploit these vulnerabilities, how the organization defenses will fare and lastly the potential breach impact.
Current or prospective customers can reach out to Forethnics to learn more about our security assessments.
What is penetration testing?
Penetration testing simulates real-world scenarios of cyber-attacks to an organization’s network, systems, or applications and assesses their vulnerability to compromise. This is usually carried out from the point of view of an external Internet-based attacker or by simulating a malicious insider.
As with a real attack, penetration tests begin with reconnaissance while scanning for specific vulnerabilities or oversights in systems configuration. If access is attained, the tester attempts to move laterally to gain access to other resources as well. Once the agreed goal of the test has been reached, the tester documents each stage of the exercise and any weaknesses uncovered.
Why testing matters
Today’s networks and systems are an order of magnitude more complex than they were even a few years ago, which means that defending them has become hugely uncertain. Even the best-resourced organizations can’t see or anticipate every vulnerability. Penetration tests give clients a wealth of insights into where weaknesses lie, allowing fixes and countermeasures to be put in place before real attackers discover and exploit them. The test report delivered at the end of this process provides a critical baseline for the management of risk, including which fixes should be given a high priority. This helps organizations understand how they should plan security investments going forward.
A misconception is that only poorly managed systems and networks have vulnerabilities. In fact, systems and networks are so diverse and complex that can inherently suffer from different types of weaknesses. Even among carefully secured infrastructures, the dynamic nature of modern environments means that new vulnerabilities can appear at any moment. Because, simple oversights can have severe repercussions, what matters is to spot them before the adversaries do.
Our penetration testing service
Forethnics has a proven track record among customers with complex environments such as, but not limited to, financial services and banking, telecommunication providers, maritime (shore and vessel), healthcare, critical infrastructure, online retailers, insurance. Our penetration tests are carefully tailored to simulate scenarios that assume different attacker’s standpoints and levels of knowledge regarding the target.
The testing approach is goal oriented and aims to demonstrate the maximum impact of a successful cyber-attack that could allow a third party to obtain unauthorized access to the data served by the target systems or applications.
Objectives of a penetration test:
- Discover and exploit security weaknesses on the target networks/systems/applications
- Identify synergies among the exploited weaknesses aiming to amplify the impact of the attack
- Identify the level of technical risk associated with these weaknesses
- Recommend countermeasures to negate these weaknesses or mitigate the associated risk
Penetration testing benefits
- Carried out by a third party, a penetration test offers a realistic assessment of a company’s systems and applications under real-world scenarios
- Validates and supports organizations to ameliorate their security procedures and investments
- Tests various parts of an organization’s defenses – procedures, access controls – which are inherently difficult to assess by other means
- Gives organizations insight into how smaller and apparently innocuous vulnerabilities can lead to larger compromises when used together.
Forethnics Elite team
Forethnics penetration testers hold a range of accreditations, including Offensive Security OSCP, CREST CPSA, CREST CRT and EC-Council CEH
4.1.1. Application Penetration Test
Let us try to hack your app and find vulnerabilities before those are found by intruders.
Forethnics Elite team will simulate a cyberattack on your systems and evaluate their security level and risk impact. Our team will turn upside down finding all weaknesses and propose how to build up a concrete defense.
4.1.2. System Penetration Test
Forethnics Elite team and consultants will leave no stone unturned looking for vulnerabilities in your infrastructure. Technical Security Assessment for identification and exploitation of vulnerabilities across networks and services in your infrastructure.
4.1.3. Web Application Penetration Test
Web Application penetration testing exercises are designed to answer how robust, reliable, and secure are your web applications and how effective your existing security controls are against an active, human, skilled cybercriminal in the real world. Web Application penetration testing exercises focus on the internet accessible and internal web applications of the organization and proactively identify critical exposures in the web applications, underlying infrastructure and the communication between the web application clients and servers.
4.1.4. Mobile Application Penetration Test
Mobile Application penetration testing services proactively detect critical exposures in mobile application platforms (iOS & Android), services and applications across your mobile enterprise, to identify how protective measures might be misused, mismanaged, attacked, or incorrectly configured. A comprehensive approach to risk management is required to safeguard your Mobile Applications and data.
4.1.5. Wireless Penetration Test
A Wireless assessment is a simulation of real-world attacks that involves authorized persons’ use of attacking methods mimicking cybercriminals’ techniques. Wireless Network Penetration Testing is designed to answer what is the real-world effectiveness of your existing security controls against an active, human, skilled cybercriminal. This test focuses on the wireless network infrastructure of the organization and proactively identifies critical exposures in devices and hosts connected to your network.
4.1.6. Remote Access (VPN) Penetration Test
A Remote Access (VPN) assessment is a simulation of real-world attacks that involves authorized persons’ use of attacking methods mimicking cybercriminals’ techniques. Remote Access (VPN) Penetration Testing is designed to answer what is the real-world effectiveness of your existing security controls against a skilled cybercriminal targeting your Remote Access services (VPN).
