Our principal objective is to support you in improving your security posture by thoroughly evaluating threats and vulnerabilities to your applications, databases, systems and network environment.
Our approach involves:
Conducting real-life testing of an organisation's applications, databases, systems and devices to identify vulnerable access points.
Determining where resilience to internal and external attacks and breaches are weak.
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.