Simple as it may sound, keeping your website or web software
(i.e. the content management system that powers your website) and other online platforms updating security patches and identifying vulnerabilities is crucial in securing your website against hackers.
You might think that since most content management systems
(like WordPress and Joomla) are all coded by some of the brilliant minds in the world of programming, hacking is not possible. This isn't true.
At such an incident, we assist and safeguard your business and data online. Scroll down to see explore
A shift to a more proactive approach to protecting data and the organisational infrastructure has become a necessity. This perspective will help to reduce risks and the high costs associated with recovering from a security and data breach.
To be proactive, an organisation needs to acknowledge and accept that certain myths continue to put their data and information assets at risk. Some of the myths include that an organisation assume secured because:
The first stage involves:
The next step is to understand how the target application will respond to various intrusion attempts. This is typically done using:
This stage uses web application attacks, such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection and backdoors, to uncover a target's vulnerabilities. Testers then try and exploit these vulnerabilities, typically by escalating privileges, stealing data, intercepting traffic, etc., to understand the damage they can cause.
The goal of this stage is to see if the vulnerability can be used to achieve a persistent presence in the exploited system long enough for a bad actor to gain in-depth access. The idea is to imitate advanced persistent threats, which often remain in a system for months in order to steal an organization's most sensitive data.
The results of the penetration test are then compiled into a report detailing:
This information is analyzed by security personnel to help configure an enterprise's WAF settings and other application security solutions to patch vulnerabilities and protect against future attacks.