Penetration Testing
Penetration testing identifies and assesses vulnerabilities in systems, networks, or web applications, providing a prioritized, risk-based plan to address security gaps effectively.
What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing or pen testing is designed to test a system, network or web application to find gaps or vulnerabilities that have the potential to be exploited by an attacker or hacker.
Penetration tests are critical to gaining a clear understanding of an organization’s gaps in security, the impact if those gaps are exploited in an attack, and a clear prioritized risk-based plan to address the vulnerabilities quickly and effectively.
Comprehensive Security Assessment: Identifying Vulnerabilities, Allocating Resources, and Strategic Risk Management
Pen testing can involve portions of an organization’s environment or the entire environment. They can leverage white hat or black hat hackers and can be conducted manually or almost entirely with automated tools.
Uncover Threats
Uncover vulnerabilities or potential threats
Understanding Threats
Understand how to allocate resources to eliminate potential threats
Assess Risk
Assess the overall risk profile of by creating a snapshot of your organization’s security posture
Eliminate Risks
Generate a gap analysis geared to strategically eliminate risks in a prioritized manner
The Benefits of Falcon Guard’s Penetration Testing Service
Penetration tests provide a baseline assessment of potential threats to begin to reduce the overall risk in your environment in a structured, efficient way. Fundamentally, a pen test provides a list of vulnerabilities, a list of assets associated with the vulnerabilities, and most importantly the risk associated with the specific vulnerability.
Key Components of a Penetration Test Report: Vulnerabilities, Assets, Risk Scores, and Mitigation Plans
The consistent and periodic service delivers:
- A list of vulnerabilities uncovered by a skilled ethical hacker
- A list of assets or systems associated with the vulnerabilities
- The risk score associated with the asset
- A plan to manage or eliminate the risk to reduce the overall risk of the organization
Penetration Testing vs Vulnerability Assessments
To improve your security posture, should you start with a penetration test, a vulnerability assessment or schedule both?
The answer is that both should be part of a threat and vulnerability management program because they have unique benefits. However, penetration tests simulate an attacker’s actions, while vulnerability assessments catalog assets, assign a value to those assets, identify vulnerabilities, and prioritize remediating or addressing those vulnerabilities.
It makes sense to lay the groundwork for improving a security program with a vulnerability assessment and then test the newly fortified defense with a penetration test to create an ongoing process that ultimately incorporates both services.
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Learning More About Falcon Guard Penetration Testing
Attacks and certainly attackers are evolving, and organizations struggle to simulate the latest tactics and threats. Third parties who conduct penetration tests frequently across industries offer resources, knowledge, and experience that may be difficult to duplicate in-house.
Falcon Guard has customized solutions, including black hat or white hat hackers, and a variety of intrusion methods, including social engineering, to provide your organization with a comprehensive penetration testing service specifically geared to your organization’s needs and cost structure.