Penetration Testing Services
IT Security Penetration Testing involves a specialized IT security testing team testing the security of an IT infrastructure, taking a similar approach to cybercriminals.
Why do you need penetration testing services?
- Identify critical vulnerabilities that put your organization at risk
- Understand network risks and vulnerabilities in detail
- Interpret, prioritize and act on test information
- Choose the proactive approach to stay one step ahead
- Patch faster with a clear plan of action
- Use personalized recommendations to shrink the attack surface
- Validate the effectiveness of company protection mechanisms
- Identify the most vulnerable elements in your infrastructure and how attackers could use them
- Find out how your employees and suppliers follow security policies.
- Assess potential consequences and build protective scenarios
- Get commitment from company leaders to make cybersecurity a business priority
- Define a security strategy to gradually reduce the risk of escalation of privileges or lateral movement on the network
- Find out how vulnerable critical assets are to cyber attacks
- Comply with legislative regulations and strengthen partners' trust in the organization
- Get an in-depth understanding of the attackers' motives and tactics
- Find out the actual response time of your cyber security team
What does penetration testing include?
At this stage of the pentest, the ethical hackers at Xontech are focused on discovering what information attackers can gain if they infiltrate the network perimeter. This scenario also exposes internal threats, such as disgruntled employees, vendors or customers that an attacker could target.
Here are just some of the elements our experts are working to uncover:
Publicly available information about the company and company network (IP addresses, domain names, host names, etc.)
Email addresses and personal information about company leaders (CEO, CFO, IT managers, etc.) that can be used in later stages of the attack
Databases stolen or exposed in previous security breaches that may also include details about your company that an attacker can use
Network configuration and how different technologies such as firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and others react to threats
Documentation of network components, OS fingerprinting and network segmentation
Ability to capture data as it flows through the network (also known as Man-in-the-Middle attacks or traffic sniffing).
Network perimeter testing also involves a full vulnerability scan, filtering the results and eliminating false positives.
In addition, our team practically simulates what happens if an attacker bypasses the firewall and compromises a user account without administrator privileges.
An important part of the pentesting we do for our clients is to discover vulnerabilities in their web and mobile applications. The more apps your company uses, the more the risk increases, so a pentetration test becomes a must.
A thorough code review is essential to uncover security issues, so we are extremely thorough. We analyze applications throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to make sure that industry standards are met. We also identify where and when your team can make improvements in the code to prevent security issues.
This analysis is part of the rigorous assessment we do to uncover vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to illegally access or publicly expose confidential information.
For example, problems that can occur with web applications include SQL injection, cross-site scripting, unprotected authentication, exposure of secret data, incorrect security configurations and weak encryption.
Application testing is a painstaking process as it involves analyzing specific details and spending time to understand user habits and the wider context of application usage.
Maintaining flexibility in use while maintaining security is a key objective for organizations like yours.
That's why, at Xontech, we focus on rigorous testing that reveals how secure the mobile devices used in your company are.
Of course, we do the same with the applications installed on them. We devote time and attention to the part of the test called secure code review, analyzing both frequently and infrequently used apps.
Our goal is to help you gain a thorough understanding of the risks that mobile applications and devices introduce to your business. Once identified and prioritized, you can count on us to point you to solutions that can help you manage and mitigate that risk.
When you work with our team for a pentest, we also take it upon ourselves to check how secure the wireless solutions you're using are.
Through the results and guidance we give you, you'll get a detailed understanding of how secure your company's data is when it's traveling over wireless networks. The same observations apply to systems in your organization that are connected via wireless technologies.
For example, we sometimes discover improper network configurations or vulnerable authentication data and protocols. These security loopholes can allow attackers to access your wireless network even from outside your building.
Another entry point for cybercriminals occurs when employees use their mobile devices on insecure, unpatched wireless networks during meetings outside the office or while traveling.
As part of the penetration testing we do, we carefully examine and test the embedded and IoT (Internet of Things) devices used within the organization.
Because IoT devices include software, sensors, actuators that are always connected, exchanging data, our role is to determine if they are secure and if data can transit these devices safely.
We therefore assess your devices. IoT by trying:
exploit the firmware embedded in them;
control devices by injecting malicious commands;
modify data sent by these devices.
The objective is to help you understand whether these devices can meet your security standard. At the same time, we seek to confirm whether the information and commands issued by your devices. IoT devices are legitimate.
With attackers renting cheap botnets and launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks capable of disabling security measures and taking offline sites used by millions of people, it's critical to make sure your organization can withstand such an attack.
As part of our work process, we test the susceptibility and behavior of your networks and their components in the context of DDoS attacks. In addition, we evaluate the anti-DDoS measures and solutions you use to see if your network architecture can withstand such an overload.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was introduced to ensure that card details used by customers are handled with at least a basic level of security.
Penetration tests only became part of the mandatory measures a few years ago, along with vulnerability assessments.
Frequent security breaches followed by data leaks have given rise to a legal context that obliges companies handling card data to perform penetration tests at least once or twice a year:
Segmentation Testing
Vulnerability assessment
Penetration Testing
Our security experts manually simulate attacks that exploit vulnerabilities discovered in the previous steps. We demonstrate the real risk to your business and help you identify the most effective solutions to ensure that:
You comply with PCI DSS regulations;
your business can continue to operate in the event of an attack;
customer card data is securely stored and processed.
Black box penetration testing
In this context, the pentesting team does not have any information about the company they are about to evaluate.
This allows professionals to:
- Launch controlled attacks against the tested systems to identify vulnerabilities in a reality-based manner
- Discover how low-risk vulnerabilities, exploited in a specific order, can generate much higher-risk vulnerabilities
- Identify vulnerabilities that cannot be discovered with software that automatically scans your network and applications
- Amplify pentesting methods to cover powerful infrastructures deployed while preserving information privacy
- Replay some of the behavior of attackers realistically to identify vulnerabilities present in infrastructure or other devices.
White box penetration testing
This version of pentesting is also known as glass box, clear box, structural or open box testing. The name implies that you provide full details about your infrastructure to the ethical hackers who will perform the test. This typically includes network diagrams, source code, ip-URI classes and other details.
By hitting the road with this information, engineers identify vulnerabilities before performing a full audit to uncover other problems.
A plausible scenario is that a disgruntled employee, an intruder who has managed to gain physical access into the building and also into your internal data network, or an attacker who has managed to exploit a breach in your wireless system would try to gain confidential information or even jeopardize your company’s business. After a thorough analysis and study of the applicable scenarios, a plan will be drawn up to detect, prevent and, therefore, combat this type of attack.
Grey box penetration testing
Wondering if there is an intermediate version between white box and black box testing?
Find out that there is and it’s called – predictably enough – grey box testing.
This option combines tactics from both testing methodologies and allows for a comprehensive assessment of your organization’s security level.
In this context, engineers review your network documentation and prioritize the testing of the highest-risk assets instead of identifying these priorities during the test run.
Because it is a highly focused approach, gray box testing is both cost-effective and time-efficient. At the same time, our team can validate attack vectors and scenarios to minimize false positives quickly.