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Penetration testing (or pentesting) involves finding and exploiting vulnerabilities within your IT systems, websites, applications and cloud infrastructure. It’s sometimes referred to as ‘ethical hacking’. Penetration testers find methods attackers use to gain access to your assets.
Trusting the effectiveness of your organisation’s IT security controls is crucial to mitigating risks and preventing malicious access to your systems and data. Pentesting enables you to remediate vulnerabilities and improve your organisation’s security strategy.
With an ever-changing IT landscape and an evolving cyber threat, regular pentesting can help you to:
Our consultants conduct rigorous penetration testing of your networks, systems and applications using industry-standard practices. We are CREST-approved and certified to the UK Penetration Testing discipline, which affirms our expertise and professionalism in delivering these specialised services. Each of our pentesting services adheres to the following assessment methodology:
Penetration testing starts with building a map of the target environment, system or application (known as the ‘attack surface’) to establish all potential avenues of attack. We obtain detailed information about the attack surface using active and passive information gathering, such as Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering, port scanning and non-intrusive service enumeration techniques.
We perform further scanning of your applications, services and systems to discover helpful information about the configuration of your assets. This process will often reveal technologies and versions of software in use, exposed sensitive files, misconfigured services and other facts about your assets that require further investigation.
With a vast amount of information gathered about the target(s) under assessment, we combine various manual and automated techniques to identify attack vectors.
Our team’s expertise allows us to discover hard-to-find vulnerabilities and plan an effective strategy to demonstrate exploitation.
We leverage our advanced technical capability to simulate the exploitation of discovered vulnerabilities using a mix of public and internal tools, scripts and offensive techniques.
Once we’ve achieved a foothold via successful exploitation, our team replicates the attack lifecycle to identify and compromise other targets of value within the context of exploited systems.
Once we’ve obtained evidence of the successful attack chain, we remove any artefacts or changes applied to the system, restoring it as closely as possible to its original state.
To maximise the value of a penetration test, acting upon the vulnerabilities identified during an engagement is essential. Our penetration testing service provides a detailed technical report to assist you in making these critical improvements. Our technical penetration testing reports include the following:
We understand that technical reports can be challenging to consume, so ours are tailored heavily, based on feedback from our valued customers. Our consultants are always available to discuss your questions once you’ve received the report.
Penetration testing is a broad term covering several types of offensive cyber security assessment. Our team provides the following penetration testing services:
Why choose Sentrium?
Our experienced and CREST-certified penetration testing team ensures we offer the required level of expertise to provide an accurate and comprehensive penetration testing service.
Our consultants will work closely with you to determine the most appropriate testing and clarify any questions you may have.
Our communication-focused client-first approach ensures that our consultants are always on hand to answer any questions you may have. We pride ourselves on establishing and building strong and collaborative long-term relationships with our clients.
Penetration testing is the process of assessing an IT system’s security using similar techniques and tools that a malicious actor would use. It can help you to understand the vulnerabilities affecting IT systems and how your organisation may be affected by those vulnerabilities if an attacker targets them.
Once we’ve established the scope of the assessment, our CREST-accredited team provides penetration testing services using an industry-standard methodology. First, a pentester uses reconnaissance techniques to enumerate information about the target environment. They will then fingerprint applications, services and systems, gathering further information for exploitation and lateral movement. This process is repeated to gain the highest-level access to the targets to demonstrate the impact of an attempted compromise.
Pentesting should typically be done annually, especially where there are certification or regulatory requirements to conduct penetration testing. However, there are some cases where pentesting should be performed more often, such as where substantial changes are made to networks, custom software or applications have frequent development releases, or new products or services are launched.
Our skilled CREST-approved penetration testers perform pentesting to simulate attacks using the same techniques used by malicious adversaries.
This depends on the agreed scope of the penetration testing engagement. For example, the size of the network under review, the type of network, and whether any pentesting is performed authenticated may affect the length of the assessment.
This depends on the scope and how many days it will take to complete the project. Contact us for a no-obligation quote where we can learn your requirements and provide a detailed proposal for penetration testing services.
Our skilled pentesters follow strict guidelines in accordance with legal and technical standards to ensure minimal disruption to your business while performing a penetration test. Our consultants work with you to establish high-risk systems and operational concerns during the scoping process.
CREST is an international not-for-profit accreditation and certification body representing and supporting the technical information security market. Companies can become a CREST member and apply for CREST-accredited services. The application requires a rigorous assessment of companies’ processes, data security and service methodologies to ensure they adhere to a best practice standard.
Yes! Sentrium has achieved the standards set by CREST and is a CREST-approved penetration testing service provider. We’re proud to offer services that achieve CREST’s extremely high standards of quality and professionalism, which are recognised internationally.
Working with a CREST-approved penetration testing provider ensures you’re in safe and experienced hands. You should have the confidence that your penetration test is thorough and comprehensive. Your provider must conduct a technically comprehensive test that will adhere to information security and quality assurance requirements set by CREST.
Once your penetration test is complete, we compile a detailed report containing the identified vulnerabilities, what risks they pose and recommendations on how to remediate them. Once we’ve delivered the report, our team will be available to discuss the results in detail and answer any questions.
Despite growing awareness and understanding of cyber security in all aspects of business, common vulnerabilities and weaknesses still affect many applications, networks and services. Sentrium’s CREST-approved penetration testing services help to identify and remediate these vulnerabilities, enabling organisations to protect the assets that malicious actors may target. Our penetration tests frequently identify vulnerabilities such as:
Systems, applications, software packages and cloud environments can be highly configurable. Misconfigured features can have a disastrous effect on a service’s overall security posture.
Patching may be a basic security principle, but the reality can be incredibly complex. Discovering outdated and unsupported software during a penetration test is not unusual. Unsupported software no longer receives security patches and is commonly targeted by opportunistic attackers.
Incorrect assumptions about how users will interact with a system can result in logic flaw vulnerabilities. In web applications, this is often seen in excessive reliance on client-side controls, which allow the malicious manipulation of workflows.
Common weaknesses include injection vulnerabilities, such as command injection, database (SQL) injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). These vulnerabilities often seriously impact an application’s security and the sensitive data it processes.
Cryptographic failures include the improper use of unsecured protocols, ciphers, certificates and legacy encryption technologies. These weaknesses may allow a suitably positioned malicious actor to intercept sensitive information as it traverses a network.
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