Cyber Threat Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing

With a rapid surge in cyber-attacks, it has become vital than before to look at the susceptibility scans and penetration that is affecting your data or other important pieces of information. Penetration Testing helps ensures that cyber controls are working properly or not. Pen testing helps identify vulnerabilities and risks in the system that could be the reason for confidentiality breakage and loss of the data.

In Penetration testing, experts look at exposures and tries to resolve them at the first. All the businesses must do regular penetration testing as it offers the following advantages:

• Helps look at the weakness in the infrastructure, application, and people so that businesses can get controls
• Penetration testing helps ensure whether quick controls are deployed or not.
• This testing is useful in avenues of attacks and immediate measures can be taken accordingly.
• To look for bugs that are present in the software

Vulnerability scanning and penetration testing are useful in checking the intrusions and breaches that affected the business. It is important to scan the external infrastructure and applications so that protection against external threats can be maintained. At the same time, it is important to test internally as well so that insider threats from individuals can be avoided significantly. It is important to include controls between different security zones while doing Internal testing needs (DMZ, Cardholder data environment, SCADA environment, etc.) so that it can be correctly configured.

Reasons Why Penetration Testing is Important ?

• Meeting compliance: It has become mandatory to adhere to all the regulations for annual and ongoing penetration testing. Penetration testing permits businesses to ease real risks related to the network.
• Maintaining confidentiality and goodwill of business: Failure to defend the privacy of the data might result in legal consequences that can ruin your image as well. A security attack is harmful and it results in loss of accounting records and can affect your business revenue as well. Penetration testing helps businesses know the real-time taken by an attacker to violate the system, also it assists companies to prepare the security teams that can look for the threats.
• To verify secure configurations: In case the security team is doing a perfect job, and are much confident about the work done by them, the penetration reports would be the same. Taking outside assistance from a confirming agent helps get a broader picture of something that lacks. Getting penetration testing or using penetration testing solution helps measure the team’s efficiency and assist in knowing the loopholes, in any.
• Security training for the entire team: Penetration testing allows companies to appreciate and respond to possible cyber-attack types effectively. For instance, if the penetration tester compromises a system without informing others about it effectively, this might result in getting wrong information and failure of security monitoring.
• Testing new technology implementation: Testing the latest technology initially is vital and it must be checked at the production stage only. Accomplishing a penetration test on new technologies helps saves you valuable time and money. Also, it helps solve the vulnerabilities and gaps quickly and more effectively.

How often to conduct pen testing?

Pen testing must be considered regularly as it helps look for the recently discovered, previously unknown susceptibilities. The minimum frequency is based on the kind of testing conducted and what is the target of the test. Testing must be done regularly, maybe monthly as it helps to do internal vulnerability scanning of workstations. Pen testing must be done after deploying infrastructure and applications and even in the case, some major changes are done in infrastructure and applications, doing pen testing will help.

Cyber Radar Systems’ Pen Testing

Cyber Radar Systems are highly experienced in security testing and catering to the diversified needs of businesses. Our Penetration Testing solution helps disclosure susceptibilities in applications and is aimed at dropping the risks of the application.

Penetration testing methods used by us include:

External testing- The systems and assets that can be accessed on the internet, like the web application, etc. are targeted. The goal of ding external testing is to get access to the application and the data.

Internal testing—Pen testers get access to the application behind the firewall which helps prevent the loss of credentials and data by the employees.

Blind testing—blind testing means an actual application attack in real-time.

Double-blind testing—Double-blind testing is quite comparable to a blind test, but the security team is much informed about this kind of simulation. They get no time to prepare themselves for the attack.

Targeted testing—In this kind of testing, the penetration tester and security team work together, and inform each other about each of the detailed steps that are required to be taken against the attack. It is like a training exercise that offers real-time feedback when an attack happens.

Get prepared For an Attack

One of the main reasons penetration tests are important for businesses is that they help learn ways to handle different kind’s malicious entries. Using Pen testing software allows businesses to examine whether an organization’s security policies are genuinely effective or not and they can look for ways to cover that situation. Penetration testing solution offered by Cyber Radar Systems

Cyber Radar Systems delivers suitable solutions helpful for the companies to prevent and detect attackers, also it helps stay alerted from intruders who try to enter inside the system.

Cyber Security Architect  10+ years of experience building enterprise systems both in the cloud and on-premises.  Passionate for technology and sharing what I learn with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive