Why Penetration Testing - how
secure is your security? 
The question is not just how secure your most
critical servers are. The vital question today is how secure
your entire IT infrastructure is, including your security
elements, the very tools designed to prevent intrusions.
This is the question that Penetration Testing
attempts to answer. It is a crucial test not just for
scrutinizing an organization’s security vulnerabilities and
the risks that come with them, but also for testing the strength
of the security systems themselves, which have been designed to
protect the assets.
Penetration Testing becomes a vital procedure
in security maintenance, requiring the security team to assume
the role of a hacker. The idea is to attempt to break into the
client’s IT infrastructure, with the client’s permission, to
check the robustness of the organization’s entire network and
systems infrastructure including the security elements.
Identifying the security vulnerabilities will help your
organization minimize the risk of damage to your network, hosts
and services that can be caused by a hacker.
Penetration Testing by
Net ProActive Services - specialists
at work
Net ProActive Services
is virtually synonymous with
the concept of Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing.
We provide Penetration Testing services from the
state-of-the-art International Management and Research Center,
(the IMaRC), located at Net ProActive Services. The team handling these
operations employs a range of commercial, free and open source
and indigenously developed ‘in-house’ tools to achieve this
end.
The Net ProActive Services
Penetration Testing
service, comprising of bespoke designed checks on the devices
and systems provide you with an element level – network
devices, systems, and applications – as well as an overall
organization level view of the risks that you might be carrying.
Our Approach - an
acid test of defenses
The first step of the attack-based approach
we adopt is ‘foot printing’ or mapping. Foot printing is the
preliminary groundwork needed to gain a firm understanding of
the infrastructure under test. It would involve Network mapping
and systems identification, identifying network address blocks,
domain names and registrations, and identifying routers,
firewalls, proxies, gateways, caching systems, operating systems
and application services.
In the port-based attack, the team searches
the client’s network for open ports and identifies the
services associated with each port to initiate the attacks.
Operating systems enumeration is a procedure
that involves a more intrusive probe to check for
vulnerabilities associated with faulty configurations,
vulnerable user accounts and poorly protected resource shares
Services and data pilferage check is carried
out in which the identified services like application services
or database services or host-based services are enumerated.
The confidentiality of the data and the availability of the
services are checked using custom-designed tools developed by
the Net ProActive Services team.
Checking security systems is the culmination
of the process of Penetration Testing. Firewall Penetration
Testing is one of the first tests undertaken to provide better
understanding of how well the security policy has been deployed
and how it will hold up when encountered with a threat.
Our Deliverables
- empowering
you
Net ProActive Services
provides the following
information that can be used to incorporate the appropriate
security features to make your infrastructure more secure:
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Description of the method used for Penetration
Testing
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Vulnerabilities found as a result of the Penetration
Testing exercise
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The information exposed as a result of the exercise
Benefits In a Nutshell
- a
sound starting point
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A First Step: Penetration Testing serves as an
excellent starting point to organizations in assessing the
need for security – we assign a security baseline based on
consultation and the results of the Penetration Testing.
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Customized Recommendations : Based on a careful study
of your business, assets and potential threats, we make
recommendations on the depth and breadth of testing you may
require.
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Real Security
Picture: Penetration Testing provides a
realistic picture of the state of your organization’s
security.
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Benchmarking Organizational
Security: We compare our
results with best industry standards and the results of other
companies and then create a benchmark for your security.
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It’s Safe: The Security team simulates a real
intruder attack in a controlled and safe way ensuring your IS
infrastructure is not harmed.
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