Today’s cyberthreat landscape is evolving at an alarming pace, and businesses are increasingly pressured by their stakeholders to protect themselves against data breaches such as DDoS attacks, phishing and Ransomware.
While organizations are constantly flooded with the latest and supposedly greatest tools and technologies, penetration tests remain one of the most popular and critical tools to strengthen your security defenses.
What is a Penetration Test?
The objective of a penetration test is to “identify ways to exploit vulnerabilities to circumvent or defeat the security features of system components”. Penetration tests (or pentests, in short) are simulated attacks in a controlled environment carried out by third-party security specialists who employ the same techniques as attackers located outside your infrastructure. The test will reveal if your servers, infrastructure or applications will resist hostile attacks and if the identified vulnerabilities can lead to further intrusion and exploitation.
What is the process of a Penetration Test?
- Plan and scope a penetration testing engagement
- Understand legal and compliance requirements
- Perform vulnerability scanning and penetration testing using appropriate tools and Techniques, and then analyze the results
- Produce a written report containing proposed remediation techniques, effectively
- Communicate results to the management team, and provide practical recommendations
Go Systems is CompTIA PenTest+ certified.
Speak to Go Systems today about assisting your organisation with a Penetration Test.