Penetration Testing Services

Penetration Test is a security testing method that involves performing a planned cyber-attack with an ethical hacker on your systems. This would typically mean performing a planned attack under controlled conditions, replicating scenarios of a real attack attempt. The test is performed to identify exploitable vulnerabilities and evaluate the effectiveness of your organization’s security posture. The Penetration test involves identifying vulnerabilities, determining how an attacker would escalate access to sensitive information, determining potential impacts, and identifying susceptible applications and systems that may expose your business to cyber risks. The information or findings obtained from the test can help fine-tune your system or application security policies and patch detected vulnerabilities.

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    Our Approach to Penetration Testing

    Planning & Defining Objectives
    Planning & Defining Objectives

    We sit with your team to discuss, analyze, and define the objectives of Penetration Testing.

    Reconnaissance
    Reconnaissance

    In collaboration with your team, we gather information relevant to assessment goals before planning a staged attack.

    Vulnerability Assessment
    Vulnerability Assessment

    At this stage, we identify the possible vulnerabilities on the target network.

    Penetration Testing
    Penetration Testing

    Once the potential vulnerabilities are identified, we run a Pen Test to verify the same through an active intrusion attempt.

    Maintain Access
    Maintain Access

    Once we gain access to a system, we inject agents to see if we can successfully maintain access to the system for a long period of time, irrespective of reboots, reset, or modified by the network administrator.

    Analysis of findings
    Analysis of findings

    We conduct a complete analysis of vulnerabilities that were identified, exploited, and sensitive data that were accessed. We further analyze the amount of time we maintained access in the system and for the tenure it was undetected.

    Reporting
    Reporting

    The results of the Penetration Test are compiled into a report detailing a summary of the Penetration Testing, Vulnerabilities, Risks detected, Recommendations for bridging the GAP, and Suggestions for better security.

    Re-Testing
    Re-Testing

    Once vulnerabilities are identified and remediated, we run a re-test on the system to ensure that fixes were successfully implemented and determine any new vulnerabilities that could be detected due to remediation.

    Benefits to work with vistainfsoec

    Why work with VISTA InfoSec?

    Vendor Neutral- We believe in being your true consulting / audit partners by not indulging in sales of hardware/software that results in bias suggestions.
    Strictly No Outsourcing- We value your trust in us so we do not outsource your critical assignments to the third-party.
    Industry Expertise- Share industry-specific insight and relevant recommendations for achieving your goals of compliance.
    Years of Experience- Benefit from our decade long years of Industry experience and knowledge.
    End-to-end support- Our team will hand-hold you at every stage/process to implement security controls and systems to protect the environment.
    Actionable recommendations- Our team provides remediation to mitigate the risks your environment faces from external attackers, Insider threats, automated worms, and network management errors to improve the security posture of your environment.
    Robust security & risk management solution- Provide a comprehensive solution designed to your business requirements.
    Reports detailing the analysis finding- Provide you documents detailing complete analysis and relevant recommendations for remediation.
    Training videos and materials- Provide valuable training videos and materials for equipping your personnel.
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    Frequently Asked Questions on Penetration Testing

    Any organization looking to strengthen the security of their IT infrastructure and identify vulnerabilities that could possibly lead to security threats may need to run a Penetration Test on their systems.

    Vulnerability Assessment is a method of scanning and identifying vulnerabilities in systems. While Penetration testing is a technique of simulating a real attack on the system and exploit weaknesses in the environment, quantify the amount of damage a breach can inflict and possible data compromise.

    There are two types of Penetration Testing:

    External: This testing engages over the public IP address space. The server is accessible from the Internet and publically available to any user to access the server. The test simulates a real attack and determines how an attacker would attempt a breach from the Internet.

    Internal: This testing engages from inside the organization’s private network. The test simulates a real attack and determines how an attacker would attempt access to the organization network or a disgruntled employee having insider knowledge and working of the system.

    Penetration Testing should be performed at least once a year or subject to the Compliance requirements such as that of PCI DSS. This is to ensure security management of IT Infrastructure against evolving threats and cyber-attacks.

    Identify the environment which an attacker may possibly use to break into the system.
    Identify the systems, applications, and network areas that are susceptible to attacks.
    Test applications and networks that may be the most common avenues of attack.
    The test helps discover new bugs in the existing software.
    Helps quantify the impact in case of a breach.
    Helps quantify the data that will be compromised in case of compromise such as user data, login credentials, privacy information, etc.

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