In today’s digital scenery, each establishment functions within an interconnected network of on-premises systems and cloud infrastructures. Although these systems facilitate the uninterrupted cooperation and scalability, they also provide opportunities to cyber-attacks. Network and cloud penetration testing are two important security practices, which aid organizations to expose dark secrets vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Our team of ethical hackers at Aardwolf security is involved in advanced penetration testing to aid businesses in protecting their systems, information, and reputation.
What Is Network Penetration Testing?
Network penetration testing (also known as network pen testing) is a mock attack that is aimed at determining vulnerabilities within both an internal and external network environment of an organization. The idea is to appreciate how an attacker can take advantage of the flaws in the system and more to the point, how to avoid such an event.
The network penetration test includes routers, switches, firewalls, servers, and endpoints. The process assesses the systems that are facing the outside (those accessible by the internet) as well as the systems that are not accessible to the outside user (only accessible to the internal users).
Key benefits include:
- Determining vulnerability ahead of the hackers.
- Enhancement of network settings to prevent actual threats.
- Exercising incident response in a real-life scenario.
- Compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS and GDPR.
A well conducted network penetration test will give you the complete picture on whether your organization is cyber resilient or not.
Network Penetration Testing Types.
Two major classes of network tests are performed at Aardwolf security:
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Penetration Testing of External Networks
This form concentrates on systems that are available over the internet like web servers, email systems, and the use of VPNs. The rationale is to detect vulnerable areas that can be exploited by an external attacker to break into your environment.
Our testers recreate an actual situation of attack in the real world by using reconnaissance, exploitation, and privilege escalation as a means to determine the ability of your perimeter defences to resist an advanced attack.
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Penetration Testing in the Internal Network
An internal test presupposes that a malicious actor or an employee with compromised accounts already has the access to the internal network. It identifies dangers that are due to ineffective segmentation, outmoded patches, or configurational errors in internal frameworks.
Internal network penetration testing by simulating insider threats would guarantee that your organization can contain breaches before they propagate laterally through the network.
What Does a Cloud Penetration Testing mean?
As organizations move to the cloud, risks of exposing data to risks increases. Cloud penetration testing can be used to detect vulnerabilities in your cloud infrastructures such as misconfigurations, unsecure APIs and ineffective access controls.
As opposed to conventional infrastructure, cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Google cloud services work under the model of shared responsibility. This implies that although the cloud provider manages the infrastructure, it is you who must take care of the information, settings and user access control of the latter.
Aardwolf Security penetration testing services is offered to test your cloud architecture in order to make sure that sensitive data, workload, and virtual networks are completely secured.
The reason why Cloud Penetration Testing is critical
Cloud environments are dynamic, scalable and ever varying. This is a strength and a security issue. Common cloud risks include:
- Improperly configured storage buckets or databases.
- Poor IAM (Identity and Access Management) policies.
- Vulnerable API endpoints
- The poor logging/monitoring
- Permission of free access
A cloud penetration test can be used to address these problems and identify them before they result in expensive data breaches. With these tests periodically, your organization is guaranteed a continuous compliance, sound data protection, and operational integrity.
The Aardwolf Security Approach
Both our network and cloud penetration testing methodology are well-organised, open and outcome-oriented.
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Scoping and Planning
We start by learning about your business goals, infrastructure and compliance needs. This assists in the delimiting of our test limits and the selection of suitable methods of testing.
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Vulnerability Discovery
Our testers rely on advanced tools and manual entries to map your attack surface to scan weak points in the network and cloud layers.
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Exploitation
We model the real-world attacks so as to find out how the vulnerabilities can be abused. Our dark hat hackers use regulated processes to make sure that your systems do not crash during testing.
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Post-Exploitation and Analysis.
After identifying entry points, we determine possible potential data exposure, lateral movement, and privilege escalation risks to quantify real-world impact.
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Reporting and Remediation
Lastly, we provide a comprehensive report that describes every vulnerability, the level of risk and explicitly give recommendations on how to counteract it. We also do debrief sessions to instruct your IT and security departments on how to implement the fixes in a way that is effective.
Why Choose Aardwolf Security?
Aardwolf Security is a reliable partner to businesses in any industry due to several years of experience in penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.
- Certified international ethical hackers.
- Extensive cloud and network testing processes.
- Clinical reports that contain viable remediation actions.
- Open pricing and adaptive engagement patterns.
Aardwolf Security will keep your organization ahead of attackers whether you have on-premises networks, cloud-based infrastructure, or a hybrid system.
Conclusion
Hackers are changing daily so should your security measures. Proactive cybersecurity is built around network and cloud penetration testing to help you identify and correct vulnerabilities before they get into the hands of attackers.
Aardwolf Security is the company to secure your business today with the help of professional penetration testing.
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