Network Penetration Testing Penetration testing in simple terms is a cyber attack simulation
of a process a hacker would use to launch an attack on a business network, attached devices, network applications, or a business website.
Network Penetration Testing The purpose of the simulation is to identify security issues before hackers can locate them and perform an exploit.
When performed consistently, a pen test process will inform your business where the weaknesses exist in your security model. This ensures your business can achieve a balance between maintaining the best network security possible and ensuring ongoing business functions in terms of possible security exploits. The results of a pen test can also assist your business with improved planning when it comes to business continuity and disaster recovery.Although pen tests simulate methods hackers would use to attack a network, the difference is the pen test is performed without malicious intent. For this reason, network professionals should have the appropriate authorisation from organisational management before proceeding to conduct a pen test on the network.
Static application security Testing(SAST) SAST is an application security technology that finds security problems in the code of applications by looking at the application source code statically as opposed to running the application.
SAST technology typically involves finding specific patterns in the code that suggest suspicious code, without running the applications. Some of the vendors use regular expressions, and others build a logic graph representing the code architecture and its relations. Regardless of the approach, the limitation of seeing the code statically is very important, because complex applications with multiple layers will behave differently in runtime depending on the conditions and input data.
API Security Testing Primarily, during API penetration testing, we are testing an API’s functions/methods, how they could be abused, and how authorization and authentication could be bypassed.
We also test to see if we can cause any form of command injection, or even XSS, if the function’s response renders data on the page. We put APIs through these types of tests in hopes of revealing any security vulnerabilities that might exist.
Many security analysts who aren’t experienced in API penetration testing will try to attack the API with a vulnerability scan, but we know it doesn’t work that way. Even with the proper tools, penetration testers who don’t have the appropriate API knowledge won’t know what to do because they can’t interpret the data they receive. Our penetration testers have the background in programming and development that’s needed to provide a thorough, proper assessment for a SOAP or REST API. Our team will go through the API, function by function, to think of ways that an attacker could leverage your vulnerabilities. Every API is different, and we’re prepared to perform diligent, advanced API penetration testing to protect your organization.
Mobile Application Testing(Android/ios) Mobile application penetration testing is an in-depth and manual process that tries to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in the application. Analysis and understanding of how the application works, including any security features is essential to successfully penetrate and exploit vulnerabilities in the application.
Performing security assessments of mobile applications poses some unique challenges due to the variety of mobile devices and operating systems. Testing techniques vary based on device type and the nature of the application. We use dedicated physical devices as well as device emulators during the testing process. A code review is recommended to supplement runtime testing and can enable us to perform the most thorough assessment possible in the time allotted.
Web Application Testing Web applications play a vital role in every modern organization. But, if your organization does not properly test and secure its web apps, hackers can compromise these applications, damage business functionality, and steal data.
Web applications have become common targets for attackers. Attackers can leverage relatively simple vulnerabilities to gain access to confidential information most likely containing personally identifiable information. Best practice suggests that an organisation should perform a web application test in addition to regular security assessments in order to ensure the security of its web applications.