The What, The Why & The How of Penetration Testing Services

What Does A Penetration Testing Service Do?

To fight back a Cyber Attack, you need to think like a hacker that penetrates the networks of organisations to gain data and other valuable information. A Penetration test is a form of hacking performed ethically, it simulates an attack on an organization’s network and its structure. It is performed to help businesses find vulnerabilities in their environment that could be exploited and could lead to any error in the code.

Why Should My Business Get A Penetration Testing Service?

Most networks are structured, made, and maintained by a team that has little to no expertise or experience in Cyber Security. Penetration testing is done by a professional security expert, trained to locate and record the errors that are present in an organisation’s Network. The cumulated report can give you the opportunity to resolve the issues before they prove to be the exploitable gateway into your system for the real hackers.

How are penetration tests performed?

The process of performing a penetration test can be understood in 3 steps:

• Research

• Testing

• Recording and Patching

Unlike an original cyber attacker, penetration testing teams have a fixed number of hours to test a given Network. As a result of that, as the customer, you must make the wise decision. Where do you want the majority of the analyst’s time spent? Research or Testing/Exploitation? The time spent on recording is static, regardless of testing circumstances, being a customer you have the most control over the accuracy and amount of information, the analyst is given prior to the assessment. Both of which will affect the time required for research in the first place.

 

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The methodology of pentesting, is divided into three types of testing which are: 

 

1. Black-Box Penetration Testing

2. White-Box Penetration Testing

3. Gray Box Penetration Testing.

By identifying the less-secure systems from the highly-secure systems, businesses can ensure, that a breach in the less-secure system stays isolated, and does not affect the security of other high-security networks that possess more sensitive data. Threat isolation is as important as threat identification.

Not just the fact that it reduces risk, network segmentation can also save you and your business some time and cost involved with becoming compliant with the rules and regulations. All of this is essential for effective testing of a company’s systems and its network as well, one must be wise while choosing the testing partner for their business.

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