Penetration Testing for Networks Servers
Network System Penetration replicates the actions of an attacker taking advantage of OS, service and application weaknesses across network systems, revealing where exploitable vulnerabilities are, how they can be linked to traverse your network, how defenses react, and what remediation steps are necessary.
Your organization’s servers and workstations make up the backbone of your IT infrastructure and house some of its most important information assets. Perimeter defenses offer these systems a level of protection, but no defensive application is 100% impervious to attack. It´s therefore critical to proactively test your organization’s ability to detect, prevent and respond to network threats.
By safely replicating real-world attacks against network systems, Network System Penetration enables you to determine …
- Which systems are exposed if perimeter defenses are compromised
- What OS and services vulnerabilities pose real threats to your network
- How privileges can be escalated on compromised systems
- What information could be accessed, altered or stolen
- Which systems are vulnerable to denial of service attacks
- How trust relationships could be used to propagate local attacks against other network systems
Practice Ongoing Security Assurance
Using Network System Penetration, you can regularly evaluate the security of network resources, without requiring advanced technical skills. We incorporate industry-accepted best practices for security testing into six simple steps:
- Information Gathering
- Attack and Penetration
- Local Information Gathering
- Privilege Escalation
- Cleanup
- Report Generation
Safely Demonstrate the Consequences of an Attack
Network System Penetration takes security testing to another level by not only identifying and proving the exploitability of vulnerabilities, but also demonstrating the consequences of a data breach. Once an exploit successfully compromises a system, we interact with the system as an attacker could – such as by browsing the file system, launching a command shell, or running local exploits to escalate user privileges. Network System Penetration also allows you to pivot attacks from the newly compromised system to servers and workstations on the same network – replicating an attacker’s attempts to take advantage of trust relationships and gain access to increasingly sensitive information.
Assess Your Exposure to Large-Scale, Multi-Staged Threats
Cybercriminals are increasingly consolidating diverse attack methods to further extend their reach into compromised organizations. Network System Penetration simulates multi-staged attacks by integrating network penetration testing with both end-user testing and web application testing. The service allows you to leverage systems compromised during end-user and web application tests as beachheads from which to launch local attacks on other network systems. You can also use information harvested from compromised employee databases to create and launch convincing spear phishing tests with End-User Penetration
testing capabilities.
