Vulnerability Assessment Organizations try to defend themselves from today’s most serious risk: the hacker attacks. These attacks may cause data leakage, business interruption and serious reputational losses as well. Protection against this risk must be layered: sole technical solutions like intrusion detection/protection tools are not enough and organizations must eliminate the basis of the hacker attacks: the system and software vulnerabilities. Nearly all hacker attacks are based on the unpatched vulnerabilities. The vulnerability assessment is a first step for organizations to discover the starting points of successful hacker attacks. This service can be partially automated by professional software tools and some parts must be manually executed by security professionals. Based on the results, the organization needs to manage the patching of the vulnerabilities in order to have a healthy, updated and secure environment. Having fixed the problems, a penetration testing is necessary to check whether there are still vulnerabilities or misconfigurations in the system. The main target of the vulnerability assessment is discovering all relevant, hackable problems in the system, whereas the penetration test should be a proof whether the system is still vulnerable or not.
Business and security advantages of the service:
Detected and verified vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in the system.
Proof whether a system could be hacked or not.
This can decrease the risk of possible data leakage, business interruption and reputational losses caused by hackers.
Penetration testing is a method for testing a web application, network, or computer system to identify security vulnerabilities that could be exploited. The primary objective for security as a whole is to prevent unauthorized parties from accessing, changing, or exploiting a network or system. It aims to do what a bad actor would do.
Penetration testing simulates a real cyber-attack with the purpose of testing an environment’s cybersecurity posture. At its most basic, a successful pen test will prove how genuine the vulnerabilities in your infrastructure may be by determining if a threat actor can get through.Our penetration testing goes much further than a typical vulnerability scan, utilising advanced manual techniques to further investigate and eliminate the false positives that are common within an automated scan. Our security consultants follow OWASP and OSSTMM penetration testing methodologies to exploit vulnerabilities . In addition to the checks and analysis, which are defined in OWASP, additional checks in accordance with newest trends and techniques are performed to deliver the most extensive pentest service possible.
