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Limit the Impact of a Potential Security Incident
Annual penetration testing is critical in supporting your organization’s security posture and compliance efforts. A penetration test will break down vulnerabilities into those that are exploitable, pinpoint specific areas of high risk, and identify which vulnerabilities are jeopardizing your organization’s most critical assets.
Why Choose RedLens InfoSec for Pen Testing?
We evaluate and offer recommendations to improve your organization’s security posture, test its existing defense capabilities, limit the damage of a possible security attack, and assist in executing legal or regulatory compliance requirements.
Customer-centric Approach
We go beyond using automated tools—receive customized, hands-on experience with our dedicated team.
Our Thorough 7-step Process
Our thorough implementation process identifies security vulnerabilities and gaps in your environments.
Comprehensive, Actionable Reports
Our custom reports provide valuable insight into true deficiencies, identify specific weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and recommendations designed to provide step-by-step corrective action for ease-of-use.
Types of Pen Testing Services We Provide
The RedLens InfoSec team offers a wide variety of penetration tests to evaluate your organization’s systems, networks, applications, and environment to provide real-world assessment of gaps and vulnerabilities within them. Many organizations engage several tests to comprehensively evaluate and strengthen their security posture.
Network Pen Testing
Network pen testing involves assessing the security of network infrastructure, such as routers, switches, firewalls, servers, workstations, and other networked devices. This type of testing can be performed as an external or internal network penetration test. The RedLens team tries to exploit vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to the network or sensitive information.
We evaluate and offer recommendations to improve your organization’s security posture, test its existing defense capabilities, limit the damage of a possible security attack, and assist in executing legal or regulatory compliance requirements. A proactive assessment of your organization’s defenses will help protect you from loss and strengthen your security posture.
Web Application Pen Testing
A web application penetration test is a simulated attack on web-based software applications. This testing can be used to identify weaknesses in your environment or be used to demonstrate the resilience of your application to attack.
RedLens InfoSec’s web application penetration testing may begin with a web application vulnerability scan to detect weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations in web-based applications and the platforms that they are running on.
API Pen Testing
Modern application development has eschewed the monolithic applications of the past that integrated client-side, server-side, and database operations units into a single unit in favor of organizing applications into separate modular components. Application Programming Interfaces (API) can serve as an efficient and platform-agnostic method to facilitate data transfer between modern application components.
Organizations often implement a single API schema as a data-broker between the organization’s servers and all user-interaction methods for an application, such as web, mobile, or embedded device. Accordingly, vulnerabilities within an API have the potential to affect users across multiple components of the organization’s application.
API penetration testing by the experienced professionals at RedLens can identify existing vulnerabilities and provide remediation guidance or demonstrate the strength and resilience of the current design and controls.
Mobile Application Pen Testing
Our RedLens InfoSec team applies its expertise and certification to conduct thorough assessments on both Android and iOS applications to pinpoint vulnerabilities or misconfigurations within the application, its associated back-end web services, and APIs.
Through this meticulous process, we identify potential risks inherent in your mobile application, enabling us to bolster your security measures proactively, thwarting any attempts by attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Our Mobile Application Penetration Testing framework adheres to industry standards outlined in the OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide.
Physical Security Pen Testing
RedLens will perform a comprehensive check of your physical security controls, including checking all the doors and entryways for easy access points, attempting to bypass keyed and keyless systems, and gaining access to sensitive areas through tailgating or covert methods.
Once inside, the team can attempt further access into sensitive areas, attempt data retrieval and exfiltration, including placing a dropbox on a network, and work from rogue devices.
Wireless Network Pen Testing
Wireless networks don’t have to pose a major security risk if configured and secured properly. RedLens InfoSec’s comprehensive Wireless Network Penetration Testing includes the use of automated tools and manual methods of discovery within and around the various locations to identify wireless networks and their broadcast configurations.
Tests will be conducted using a variety of tools to determine whether, and how, the networks are penetrable. If authentication data is obtained during testing, the RedLens team will attempt to recover plaintext credentials or keys used to gain access to the network.
Heatmaps of identified access points can be provided and wireless client attacks will be conducted, if requested. Our knowledgeable and experienced team holds Offensive Security Wireless Professional certifications and is prepared to assist you in evaluating your wireless network security posture.
Hardware Pen Testing
The world is getting “smarter.” Smartwatches on our wrists. Smart homes with smart televisions, smart thermostats, and smart appliances. Are smart water bottles, smart pillows, and smart toothbrushes next? The smart device industry has been propelled forward by an explosion of smaller and more capable commercially available microprocessors, microcontrollers, System-On-Chip (SoC), and rapid prototyping platforms, allowing the creation of embedded systems for a fraction of the time and cost commitment.
Hardware penetration testing, also known as hardware security testing or embedded device testing, involves assessing the security of physical devices, such as smart devices, routers, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and other embedded systems. The goal is to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to compromise the device or the network it is connected to.
Hardware penetration testing requires specialized skills and tools, as well as a good understanding of both hardware and software security principles. It is essential for ensuring the security of embedded devices, especially in critical infrastructure and IoT environments.
Download Our Pen Testing Vendor Selection Guide
Do you know what factors to consider when choosing a Penetration Testing company?
This expert-driven playbook provides clear, actionable guidance and helps you make informed decisions to selecting a qualified Pen Testing company. This guide includes:
- An overview of what Pen Testing is
- Reasons to conduct a Pen Test
- How often Pen Testing should be conducted
- Types of Pen Tests
- Key differences between Pen Testing and Vulnerability Scanning
- Defining your Pen Testing goals
- Pen Testing Interview Checklist with areas for notes
Why Is Penetration Testing Important?
The most important objective of a penetration test is not necessarily to find all existing vulnerabilities but rather to provide your organization with data to effectively manage and prioritize overall business risk. A RedLens pen testing engagement helps your organization:
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Identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in your systems and applications
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Build customer trust and brand security
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Prevents costly data breaches
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Meets PCI compliance standards
RedLens Infosec's Penetration Testing Methodology
We use a comprehensive 7-step process to implement our penetration testing engagements.
Step 1
Prerequisites
Your RedLens team will work with you to fully understand your goals and scope the engagement. We will establish a secure method for information exchange, and create a Rules of Engagement document that will confirm the details of your engagement.
Step 2
Discovery
The discovery phase is where the engagement actually “starts.” Depending on what type of engagement it is, this phase will typically include port scanning, IP/DNS lookups, open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering, identifying systems and access, and crawling web applications.
Step 3
Creation of Attack Plan
Based on the information gathered in prior phases, your RedLens team will enumerate and conduct coordinated scan activity, map the inventory, and perform a threat capability analysis.
Step 4
Attack Execution
During the attack execution phase, experienced penetration testers are launching coordinated attacks using tactics that adversaries may use to exploit discovered weaknesses. Some of these tactics may include, but are not limited to, social engineering, password auditing, automated vulnerability scanning, manual exploitation, establishing persistence, lateral movement, and data exfiltration.
Step 5
Analysis & Verification
RedLens conducts a manual analysis and verification of the identified findings to confirm security vulnerabilities, eliminates false positives when possible, and assesses the potential risk. Any discovered element(s) will be included in documentation, reports, and diagrams.
Step 6
Creation and Delivery of Final Report
A final report will be provided that includes both an Executive Summary and a Technical Summary. The Technical Summary will include service enumeration, all significant vulnerabilities identified (ranked by severity), evidence of findings, targeted recommendations for remediation, as well as steps to reproduce so that your team can verify mitigations were successful if they wish.
Step 7
Remediation
If customers choose to have RedLens verify the mitigations were successfully implemented, we will perform a re-test of those findings identified during the initial engagement. Following a re-test, the team will provide a report that confirms the current status of those findings, and documents evidence of that status. This is especially important when performing penetration tests for PCI purposes for instance, to meet requirement 11.4.4 (PCI DSS v4.0).
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Top Penetration Testing FAQs
A penetration test, or pen test, evaluates security vulnerabilities and gaps and identifies areas of high risk in your organization's systems, networks, applications, and operating procedures.
Routine penetration testing allows you to safely test the security of your organization’s systems against real-world threats that could impact your network security, identify vulnerabilities caused by operational weaknesses, outdated security policies, insecure settings, bad passwords, software bugs, configuration errors, etc., and provide steps for remediation.
A pen test will flag areas of weakness – before a hacker finds and exploits them. This proactive test of the organization’s overall exposure helps to protect you from financial and reputational loss, as well as potentially devastating downtime.
Web application penetration testing, or "web app pen testing," is a security testing process designed to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in web applications. The primary goal of this testing is to assess the security of a web application by simulating potential attacks that a malicious hacker might use. The testing process typically involves a series of systematic tests and assessments to uncover vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security issues that could be exploited by attackers.
Wireless network penetration testing, or wireless security testing, is a type of security assessment that focuses on identifying vulnerabilities in wireless networks. These assessments are performed by security professionals or ethical hackers (like RedLens InfoSec) to evaluate the security of a wireless network and its associated devices. The primary goal of wireless network penetration testing is to uncover weaknesses that could be exploited by malicious individuals or unauthorized users.
Mobile application penetration testing, or mobile app security testing, is the process of evaluating the security of a mobile application to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could be exploited by malicious actors. Mobile applications, which run on smartphones and tablets, have become a significant part of our daily lives and store sensitive information, making them a prime target for cyberattacks. Penetration testing helps identify and rectify security issues before they can be exploited by attackers.
Physical pen testing, or "physical penetration testing," is a type of security assessment that focuses on evaluating the physical security measures of a facility or organization. During a physical pen test, penetration testers, or "pentesters," attempt to gain unauthorized access to a building, data center, server room, or other physical assets in order to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could be exploited by malicious actors.
Physical penetration testing typically involves techniques such as lock picking, social engineering (e.g., posing as an employee or a delivery person), tailgating (following an authorized person into a secure area), and even attempting to bypass security systems physically. Pentesters may also test the organization's ability to detect and respond to security breaches.
Physical pen testing is an important component of a comprehensive security assessment, helping organizations identify and address weaknesses in their physical security measures to better protect their assets and data.
How to Select a Penetration Testing Partner
Read on to discover what to look for and the right questions to ask with our guide to choosing the right penetration testing partner for you and your organization.
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