In the last couple of years, there has been a general improvement in much of the world’s economic prospects. However, there has been a decline in the per capita income of several developing countries.
As service providers, we understand the economic challenges we face in today’s world. However, the validation of IT systems’ security within each organization should not fall victim to the times despite the choices that must be taken to uphold the institutional viability within each organization.
Our qualified staff has, over the years, acquired experience in performing IT review and testing services as well as working on the security assessment of internal networks and systems in over one hundred financial institutions across the world.
This service is a test designed to detect vulnerabilities, which may or may not exploit the vulnerabilities detected during the process. This covers IP (Internet Protocol) addresses owned or controlled by your organization. In order to implement this service, you must assign it to the IP addresses on which you want the tests to be performed. These will be performed using our automated testing solutions toolkit.
In IT security jargon, the term ‘penetration test’ is used to refer to tests that are run on a system with the aim of actively detecting vulnerabilities. A penetration test can be exploitative or non-exploitative. A non-exploitative test is one where the penetration test only goes as far as discovering the system’s vulnerabilities and later on informs your organization as to the presence of those vulnerabilities, and exploitative test on the other hand is one that goes a little further beyond the mere detection of vulnerabilities. It demonstrates the ways in which an external entity might be able to exploit your organization’s vulnerabilities.
The representative tools we have used with our customers include Metasploit, OWASP Proxy, among others that come preinstalled inside the Kali Linux distribution we use for our tests. The tool or tools that are selected to perform the task may vary and are suited to the organization’s respective security specialist or expert’s perception since they are accurately assessed according to the environment in which they are going to be used. As a rule, we will only use subscription-based tools, to guarantee the updating of files and consequently, ease the detection of recently arisen vulnerabilities.
As a general rule of thumb and in line with good maintenance practices, it is recommended that organizations perform a penetration test after any change in the configuration of their secure servers, or as a result of the installation of any new foreign acquired hardware. An external penetration test is the only way to effectively verify that the said changes did not result in the creation of new vulnerabilities. Periodic testing for external penetration also has the advantage of demonstrating the efficacy of your systems’ general monitoring programs in front of regulating authorities.
Generally, we carry out penetration tests within a week prior to having signed a commitment letter with the client. In the instance where the client needs an urgent test, they can let us know so we can immediately tend to their needs.
We issue a formal report of all of our review services. This report will include a general description of the outcomes of the test, as well as any recommendations that may be made regarding the possible solutions. A copy of the complete results of the test will be attached to that report. In order to maintain a standard format, we issue all our reports in electronic format (PDF) through our email. It usually takes us about a week time to publish the report having passed it through our internal quality control function, however, expedited issuance of reports is available upon advance request. You can feel free to contact us if you would like to receive a sample report of the external penetration test.
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