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Internal & External Penetration Testing

Internal & External Penetration Testing

Are your organization's IT systems and network sufficiently protected against external attacks?

Archlight’s team and strategic partners have the knowledge and capabilities to conduct penetration testing (ethical hacking) that simulate the actions of a hacker or malicious insider in a real-life attack scenario. Such authorized tests are performed by ethical hackers (white hats posing as black hats) to ensure that your organization has visibility and understanding of security risks, weaknesses, and response capabilities for applications, systems, or networks allowing action to be taken to protect your assets from damage before it’s too late.

Technical assessments alone are simply not enough to defend against cyberattacks. People are the central component of any company process, and are often the primary gateway to sensitive data and processes Social engineering has become a very successful method for attackers to gain entry into a targeted organization. Once the access is gained, an attacker can easily then search through an organization’s network for sensitive information. Social engineers typically have two goals:

  • Data theft – in which attackers seek valuable or sensitive information or money

  • Data Sabotage – Attackers may seek to destroy and/or disrupt a victim’s environment with the intention of causing as much harm as possible.

Our team can perform numerous testing scenarios for your organization, including intelligence gathering from your environment through phone calls and phishing techniques. Conducting robust social engineering exercises reduces the total risk surface and exposes critical vulnerabilities in your organization and tests the efficacy of the organizational training and awareness programs.

Our experts will provide you with action items that will be tailored specifically to your organization to ultimately safeguard your environment from both internal and external threats.

What is Cybersecurity Penetration Testing?

Cybersecurity Penetration Testing involves ethical hackers scaling planned attacks against a company’s security infrastructure to decrease security vulnerabilities Pen testing is a part of a holistic security strategy. the main work or goal of this cybersecurity penetration testing is to find out the weak spot in the system’s defenses which hackers or attackers can take advantage of. Cybersecurity Penetration Testing is sometimes known as pen testing. cybersecurity is like something i.e. bank is hiring someone to protect their sensitive information. the bank will gain valuable information on how to protect their sensitive information.

Why Cybersecurity Penetration Testing?

  • Cybersecurity Penetration Testing is necessary as it will allow an organization to discover or find out the problems, issues, and flaws so that they can be stopped before they start. Cybersecurity testing is not only to test data but also to test people and processes like an organization.

Who Performs Cybersecurity Pen Testing?

It is better to conduct Cybersecurity Pen Testing because sometimes it is not possible to notice the flaws, issues, and blind spots during the system formation by the developers. For this reason, the organization hires developers from outside. These outside hackers are also known as “ethical hackers” who are allowed to perform ethical hacking and take permission and do hacking by taking permission from the system to increase and enhance the security and protection level.

Many hackers are well-experienced and technically skilled developers, with advanced degrees and certifications for pen testing or cybersecurity penetration testing. In some cases the developers are self-taught.

What Are The Types of Pen Testing

  • Open-Box Pen Test: in open-box pen testing the hackers are already fulfilled by some particular amount of information ahead of time regarding for the particular system.
  • Close-Box Pen Test: It is also known “single-blind” test.it is a type of test in which no background information is given to the hacker.
  • Cover-Pen Test: The cover-pen Test is a test in which not even a single person in the organization has an idea of what that open test is going on in the organization. it is also known as the “double blindfold” pen test.
  • External-Pen testing: In this external pen testing the hacker goes against the company’s external facing- guidelines and security to increase the safety of every system.

Conclusion

In any organization security of every system is very necessary as it provides personal security for the sensitive information stored in the system. All these cybersecurity penetration tests will be the best option for every system that contains even a small amount of sensitive and important data or information.