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PENETRATION
TESTING

Find weaknesses in critical resources and improve your security baseline by simulating malicious attacks.

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We take a hacker’s perspective on your infrastructure and simulate an attack on your IT systems to identify and validate vulnerabilities that may pose risks to your organization. By mimicking the tactics and techniques of real-world adversaries, we validate exploitable pathways, identify errors in programming, and diagnose logical flaws in the system architecture that attackers could use to gain access to your IT environment.

Why Perform Penetration Testing

Achieve Important Goals

01

Find and Fix Vulnerabilities

When performing penetration testing, we look at your organization from the viewpoint of a malicious actor, find exploitable vulnerabilities, and fix them before they are used by adversaries.

02

Validate Security

Posture

By imitating actions that adversaries would take to penetrate your IT infrastructure, we gain an accurate understanding of your security posture and verify how effectively your systems work.

03

Identify Gaps in Compliance

A successful perimeter breach during penetration testing can expose violations of policies and compliance measures on the part of security staff or other employees.

04

Get Management

Support

Penetration testing results from an independent third party help showcase security flaws to an organization's management and provide evidence-based reasons for increasing budgets or implementing new solutions.

05

Train Your

Security Team

Penetration testing allows you to assess how well the security team is prepared for cyberattacks as well as to measure their monitoring and incident handling capabilities.

Why perform pentest

What you can test

Penetration Testing Categories

EXTERNAL TESTING

Finds and exploits vulnerabilities in systems, services, and applications exposed to the internet

SMART CONTRACT AND BLOCKCHAIN SECURITY ASSESSMENT

Perform a security review of your blockchain ecosystem and detect vulnerabilities within smart contracts (re-entrancy vulnerabilities, transaction ordering/timestamp dependence issues, mishandled exceptions, DoS- and deadlock-related vulnerabilities)

WI-FI TESTING

Tests the security of deployed wireless solutions and all wireless devices

MANUAL INTERNAL TESTING

Searches for security weaknesses from the point of view of an attacker who has gained access to an end user's system

WEB APPLICATION TESTING

Complex and detailed testing to discover security vulnerabilities in web-based applications

SOCIAL ENGINEERING TESTING

Uses social engineering methods and test phishing campaigns to attempt to obtain sensitive information from employees

AUTOMATED INTERNAL TESTING (AVAILABLE AS CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT)

Tests your entire infrastructure daily, weekly, monthly, or at
any other interval, trying every possible attack vector based
on automated discovery of vulnerabilities and performance of ethical exploits while ensuring undisrupted network operation

MOBILE APPLICATION TESTING

Analyzes the behavior of mobile applications (iOS and Android) in a dedicated isolated sandbox environment

API TESTING

Reveals security vulnerabilities in API functions, how APIs could be abused, and how authorization and authentication could be bypassed

What you can test

How you can test

Choose the Type of Pentesting That Best Suits Your Goals

What You Get in the Report

Your penetration testing report will contain:

The penetration tester has no internal knowledge of the target systems,theirarchitecture,ortheir source code. Taking an average hacker'sperspective,thetestertries to identify and exploit vulnerabilities from outside the network.

ZERO KNOWLEDGE

• An Executive Summary for key decision-makers with no technical background, containing high-level results and what needs to be fixed immediately


• A Technical Summary with specific findings


• A description of successful attack vectors, demonstrating what vulnerabilities were exploited (and

how) to penetrate the infrastructure

 

• Recommendations for remediation and risk management

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How you can test

Before performing penetration tests, we agree on how much the customer will know about the scope of testing and the testing plan by deciding on one of three testing types: 

Visible

the customer's team has full information about the time and plan for the test

Implicit

 

the customer's  team has some general or partial information about the test

Blind/

Red teaming

the customer's team is not informed about when and how testing will be conducted

Before performing pentest

ISSP Penetration Testing Methodology

01.

Scoping

Define the scope and

goals of the test

03.

Threat Modeling

Build a method of attack

05.

Exploitation

Attempt to exploit common vulnerabilities, errors in programming, and logical flaws in the architecture

07.

Reporting

Detail the findings, classify vulnerabilities, analyze risks, and recommend mitigation strategies

02.

Reconnaissance

Search for an organization’s IT assets, technologies deployed, leaked credentials, and sensitive information indexed by search engines

04.

Vulnerability Assessmen

Map infrastructure and application surfaces, identifying vulnerabilities that may be used in the attack

06.

Post-exploitation

Obtain sensitive information, access to other servers, and credentials to be used for further attacks

08.

Verification

Check whether identified vulnerabilities were mitigated correctly

ISSP Pentesting Methodology

Penetration testing standards
that we use 

OWASP-Testing-Guide

OWASP Testing Guide

PTES

PTES Penetration Testing Execution Standard

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ISECOM OSSTMM – Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual

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NIST Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment

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ISACA IS – P8 Security Assessment – Penetration testing and vulnerability analysis

PCI DSS

PCI DSS Penetration Testing Requirements

BSI

BSI Penetration Testing Model

You should also consider

Additional Testing Options for Better Results

SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS

Using the white box Static Application Security Testing (SAST) methodology, a tester examines the application from the inside, searching its source code for conditions that indicate a security vulnerability might be present. Static code analysis establishes the impact, likelihood, and severity for each type of vulnerability.

RETESTING

All our pentests include recheck by default, but consider performing a new penetration test at a defined period of time after the first test. With retesting, the team of testers is already aware of the targets, their business logic, and previous findings. Retesting can include new functions and pieces of software added to the initial targets.

Watch our video to get an even deeper understanding of Pentests

FEEDBACK

WE STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE

'It is extremely helpful to Honeywell cybersecurity team that you have shared ISSP Labs unique expertise regarding cyber-attacks investigation.'

Glenn Berube

General Manger
Connected Solutions
Honeywell International

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