EXTERNAL PEN TESTING

Organisations need to consider information security and take seriously the breaches and potential future breaches in order to safeguard their IT systems and network. There are skilled and dedicated hackers out there who focus their efforts on a target without taking any counter measures, which makes a system breach very inevitable.

An external penetration test is conducted when the internal systems are attempted to be accessed by unauthorised outsiders. Applications, firewalls, servers or routers that are publicly accessible can all be a high-level target for all kinds of attacks by external hackers.

An unauthorised user with varying levels of access is a high-risk attacker who can pose a big threat to the organisation, in which case the organisation should give high priority and take serious steps to improve their risk levels.

Organisations should therefore not take information security lightly. They should understand the existing and potential vulnerabilities that they are exposed to, manage risk and reduce wherever possible. 

INTERNAL PEN TESTING

New rapidly evolving threats are an everyday issue for security teams to deal with. In order to minimise the risk associated with the IT systems of a company and also to understand the vulnerabilities, penetration testing has become one of the essentials to be considered by companies today.

Internal penetration testing identifies vulnerabilities in the internal and intranet systems. They are carried out to determine weaknesses and vulnerabilities that exist in authorised network connections or login ids of the company’s network domain.

An internal penetration helps in stimulating what an insider attacker might try to accomplish. All the internally connected systems of the company are examined from top to bottom. By exploiting all the vulnerabilities of the system from the perspective of an insider attacker, internal penetration test helps in securing the internal and intranet networks of the company. 

WEB APPLICATION

A modern-day website has two very important components namely the web browser and the web application. Web applications present these data to the users in their web browser by dynamically generating information in a special format (e.g.  HTML) through a web server.

Web application testing ensures that the assets like websites, web pages, customer database, web applications, IT systems, web systems and so on are protected for a risk-free functioning of both the web and non web based front end and back-end systems.

WHY IS IT NECESSARY?  WHAT ARE THE RISKS?

We have heard of threats like hackers defacing websites, bombarding sites and denying services or viruses that attack the system which are some of the significant threats faced by today’s Web applications. 

Whilst these are some of the common problems, there are internal threats like misuse of sensitive data by employees, defective software, globally accessible websites and web pages which may result in data theft and unauthorised access which make your web application a high value target that make it a worse threat. The biggest problem of all may be ignorance.

Most companies require complex and powerful applications to run their sites. The bigger the applications, more the web security issues. 

An ongoing web application testing is the only solution to such threats and attacks.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF WEB APPLICATION SECURITY?
  • A thorough knowledge about the vulnerabilities and attacks that your applications may undergo
  • High level of security for all your web applications
  • A good understanding of risk management
  • High protection of sensitive data, web servers, customer database and IT systems
  • Enhancement of professional relationships with partners, clients and third parties
  • An in-depth evaluation of the company’s current security posture
  • Identification of potential risk and breach points
  • Prioritisation and a greater understanding of what needs to be improved
  • A detailed report highlighting the threats that crashes the breach points and server availability

The solution to Web application security is more than technology. It is an ongoing process involving people and practices.

WIRELESS PEN TESTING

Wireless networks are growing so rapidly that no businesses are complete without using wireless technology in these days. Convenience, easily expandable nature, cost effectiveness, productivity enhancement, mobility, easy set up and maintenance are some of the benefits of using a wireless technology in today’s world.

Though wireless networks were believed to be faster and secure, things have changed in the recent times due to enhancements and improvisations done to the wireless networking standards, thereby impacting their speed and security.

The various wireless networks of today continue to grow at a rapid rate along with posing a lot of security challenges and opening up more opportunities for hackers and attackers. Hackers from remote locations can access your network and create irreparable damage to the network. An insecure wireless network poses a lot of security issues which damages the image of your organisation or company.

A wireless pen testing is what is required to rectify these security threats.

AusConnexion’s wireless pen testing benefits include:

  1. Identifying and locating the wireless access points and detecting the vulnerabilities and weaknesses within the wireless network spectrum
  2. Scanning the access controls to see if they are properly implemented
  3. High protection of sensitive information
  4. Evaluating potential risk at access points
  5. Providing high security
  6. Highlighting useful information relating to the security issues in the hackers’ perspective
  7. Implementation of strong techniques for your systems when attacked by a hacker to withstand the attack
  8. Applying of diverse types of techniques and methodologies to specifically suit your wireless networks
  9. A report highlighting and advising remediation and rectification for potential security risks
MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Mobile applications have become an integral part for the smooth functioning of wireless devices like mobile phones, tablets, smart phones etc. With the increase of handheld devices in the modern day, companies expand their businesses by extending their services to mobile applications.

Mobile application testing is very crucial with the large uptake of clients using mobiles, which in turn is a great threat often resulting in performance failures, monetary losses, losing of clients, and image damage.

The benefits of a AusConnexion’s mobile application testing:

  1. Ensure that the right test strategy will be applied after a thorough study about your organisation’s various mobile application
  2. The performance, compatibility, and functionality of the application will be enhanced along with high level security
  3. An understanding of the quality of the application, the weaknesses and strengths and prioritising what functions to be included
  4. Enhancement of professional relationships with partners, clients and third parties
  5. Indentifying potential risk and breach points
  6. A detailed report highlighting the existing and potential vulnerabilities and threats
SOCIAL ENGINEERING

Social Engineering is the common practice of manipulating people, usually through the use of phones or the internet, into disclosing sensitive and confidential information against legal policies. Social engineers use a vastly different method to exploit confidential information. This is done by taking advantage of the human tendency to trust a person’s words rather than finding loopholes in IT security systems. The reason for the rising popularity of social engineering is due to the fact that social engineers act upon the weaknesses of human nature to hack privileged information.

This makes social engineering one of the most dangerous methods of hacking. Social engineering is rapidly increasing in our modern world and must be prevented at all costs. Some examples of the way social engineers attack and obtain sensitive information are, phoning company help lines and data centers, posing as customers who have lost passwords or require account details. Another method of social engineering is acting through the identity of those who have access to confidential information such as a field service tech and pretending to need urgent account and information data.

Benefits of social engineering testing with AusConnexion:

  • Allows your wetware systems to be completely secured against social engineers
  • Detects vulnerabilities in the systems in order to prevent attacks on confidential information of your organisation
  • Protects employees from the influence of professional hackers who use the social engineering technique
  • Safeguards the reputation of your organisation by eradicating any existing and potential threats to wetware systems
  • Improves security awareness amongst employees to thereby stabilise the confidentialities of your organisation
  • Identifies any malicious methods of social engineering by instructing employees to act in a certain way to avoid being targets of social engineers
  • Analysis of a detailed report of all the vulnerabilities and weaknesses in overall employee security and system networks in use