Understand Your Risk With An Internal Penetration Test

An external penetration test emulates an attacker trying to break into your network from the outside. The goal of the engineer performing this assessment is to breach the perimeter and prove they have internal network access. This test includes:

• Open source reconnaissance against the organization
• Full port scan covering all TCP ports and the top 1,000 UDP ports of the targets in scope
• Full vulnerability scan of the targets
• Manual and automated exploit attempts
• Password attacks

A wireless penetration test is a comprehensive evaluation of the wireless networks in your organization using automated and manual methods. Areas covered include:

• Password attacks
• WEP/WPA cracking
• Guest wireless segmentation checks
• Traffic sniffing attacks
• SSID spoofing
• Rogue access point discovery

A web application penetration test is an in-depth penetration test on both the unauthenticated and authenticated portions of your website. The engineer will test for all of the OWASP Top-10 critical security flaws, as well as a variety of other potential vulnerabilities based on security best practice. Activities include:

• Website mapping techniques such as spidering
• Directory enumeration
• Automated and manual tests for injection flaws on all input fields
• Directory traversal testing
• Malicious file upload and remote code execution
• Password attacks and testing for vulnerabilities in the authentication mechanisms
• Session attacks, including hijacking, fixation, and spoofing attempts
• Other tests depending on specific site content and languages

This assessment is designed to target and take advantage of the human-element to gain access to your network. This is done using a variety of methods to get an employee to click on something they shouldn’t, enter their credentials or otherwise provide them when they shouldn’t, or divulge information that may assist an attacker in breaching your network. The goal for the engineer performing this assessment is to gain information that may assist an attacker in future attacks, gather credentials, or gain a foothold on the internal network. This assessment will include:

• Phone-based attacks
• Spear phishing attacks
• Bulk phishing attacks

A physical penetration test is an assessment of the physical security of your premises. Our engineers will attempt to gain access to your facility by identifying weaknesses and/or using social engineering. Once inside, our engineers will attempt to gather sensitive information, gain access to sensitive areas such as the data center, and attempt to gain internal network access.

An API penetration test emulates an attacker trying to exploit vulnerabilities within your API that may allow him to bypass authentication controls, access sensitive data, or otherwise disrupt the service. The goal of the engineer performing this assessment is to comprehensively review your API for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and exploit any vulnerability that may allow the engineer to bypass security controls. Our API Penetration Testing includes:

• Method and parameter fuzzing
• Injection attacks, such as SQLi, XSS, XPath, Command
• Authentication bypass and privilege escalation attempts
• Authorization testing to assess the security of data in multi-tenant configurations including:
  • Direct object references
  • Client or user impersonation
  • Authorization bypass
  • Information Leakage between clients
• Analyzing headers and error messages for information disclosure
• Identification of unnecessary information returned or data leakage
• Analysis of server-level transport encryption for security best practice