Penetration Testing

Almost everyone will have heard of major attacks on organisations in the press – famous ‘hacks’ that resulted in major brand damage to organisations have included such organisations as TalkTalk, Mossack Fonseca, the NHS ‘Wannacry’ and more recently Hackney Council in London. What would have happened if those organisations had been aware of the weaknesses in their defences before the attack?

Our aim is to provide thorough penetration and security testing projects to clients. Such testing is one of the primary ways in which we can assist organisations to prepare themselves and protect vital information and operational assets.

Our expert Penetration Testing Consultants will tailor ad-hoc or ongoing programmes of Penetration Testing. They will guide you through the process, explaining what they are doing at each step and conduct thorough testing of your various systems. A key element of the testing process is the debriefings and advice that our team of consultants will provide once the testing has been completed. This will include what priorities might be suitable for attention and the risks associated with each vulnerability found.

As a company we also assist organisations that have been hacked (Incident Response). As a result, we see new Tactics, Techniques and Procedures which are being used and implemented by hacking threat actors all the time. This helps us evolve our penetration and security testing to reflect real-world attack strategies.

Infrastructure Testing
Our consultants utilise up-to-date hacking techniques, methodologies and tools to provide an insight into your organisation’s security posture, by assessing your network and the hosts such as computer workstations and servers, firewalls, switches and other network devices to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could be exploited by malicious actors to breach your network. We offer testing on Wi-Fi, Internet of Things, and VoIP systems to ensure as many “attack surfaces” are tested and secured as possible.

Web Application and API Testing
The objective of a web application security test is to identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities from insecure development practices in the design and coding of web applications such as Magento, PrestaShop, WordPress, and custom-built applications. Web applications are tested according to the OWASP Testing Methodology, where our consultants will make use of automated and manual hacking techniques and tools to check for a variety of vulnerabilities including the OWASP Top 10 which involves testing for the most common vulnerabilities.

Having had experience with thousands of hacking investigation cases, including many storing, processing or transmitting cardholder data, our team has thorough knowledge of testing ecommerce and web applications, and can quickly triage and identify vulnerabilities across a range of both common and complex hacking methods.