Penetration testing occurs when organizations engage trusted third-party security professionals to simulate attacks by real intruders against their systems, infrastructure, and people. A penetration TEST provides you with a thorough analysis of the current security of your organization. The results of penetration testing are presented in an executive report that contains details of the existing security posture of your organization, possible consequences of an actual attack, and, normally, Mitnick’s recommended solutions to HARDEN your security. Penetration testing is the most thorough possible analysis of your security because actual vulnerabilities found are exploited to understand the depth and breadth of how your organization can be compromised. Your organization will be able to understand its current level of security and the consequences of an attacker breaking in through your defenses.
The benefit of penetration testing is increased security and security awareness for your organization. It will provide you with in-depth, actionable reporting and analysis to facilitate your planning, strategies, and provide practical solutions to your security deficiencies. You will learn the attacks your systems and networks are vulnerable to. You will understand whether or not your current defenses would protect your organization against viable attacks. Your high-risk vulnerabilities will be exposed. Possibly the most important benefit of penetration testing, using an external party, is that the knowledge gained will help both management and staff to see the “security truth” and will dispel myths of “it couldn’t happen to us.” A third party offers an unbiased, realistic measure of your existing security and provides expert remediation to help mitigate risk and align with best security practices. While penetration testing is the ultimate tool for hardening overall security in your organization, Mitnick Security provides the ultimate penetration testing team.
Our Global Ghost Team™ has world-renowned knowledge on all aspects of penetration testing, including extensive access to all toolsets and leading technologies in the world today. We gain detailed knowledge of your systems and network(s). We do not simply regurgitate the output of automated scans and tools. This is because, unlike most of the security firms performing penetration testing, Mitnick Security deploys senior security specialists to manually scan your systems. These specialists are experts on formulating exploits that target specific vulnerabilities in your systems. They then initiate attacks tailored toward the weaknesses discovered in your systems.
Our approach is highly effective in exploiting maximum vulnerabilities in your systems, as opposed to depending on automated scan results and generic exploit codes alone, which can reveal only approximately 15% of your vulnerabilities. This is one of the “dirty little secrets” of the penetration business, and it is why discerning clients choose Mitnick Security. We reflect what a concentrated, researched, and planned attack would actually be like in a “real world” situation. Automated scanning reflects the least sophisticated hacker you will face, for these automated scanning tools are readily available to the public.
Using Mitnick Security’s adaptive methodology allows us to discover chains of vulnerabilities hidden in the deepest levels. Our team deploys the lateral thinking of hackers to spot relations among vulnerabilities that occur, or “chain,” together. This is to ensure that our Global Ghost Team™ identifies the maximum attack vectors.
An additional unique feature of our testing is that when we simulate the attacks of actual hackers, we keep disruptions to operations at a minimum. Normally your staff is completely unaware we are there. This is how it happens in the real world.
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