External Breach
Our External Breach services help you proactively identify and mitigate vulnerabilities by simulating real-world external attack scenarios, ensuring robust protection against threats originating from outside your network.
The Importance of External Breach Testing
In today's digital landscape, organizations face constant threats from external attackers attempting to exploit vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access. External Breach testing focuses on evaluating your organization's defenses against these attacks, helping you identify weaknesses and strengthen your security posture. This approach prepares your organization to detect, respond to, and mitigate the impact of external threats.
Our Approach
At Pretera, our approach to external breach is comprehensive and adaptive, designed to address the complexities of threats originating from outside an organization. We begin by preparing the infrastructure to withstand potential attacks, which includes conducting thorough vulnerability assessments and mapping out critical assets to understand their exposure to external threats.
Next, we engage in targeted penetration testing that simulates real-world external attacks, allowing us to identify weaknesses in defenses and evaluate the effectiveness of current security measures. This hands-on approach provides valuable insights into how attackers might exploit vulnerabilities, enabling us to strengthen our response capabilities.
Finally, we focus on incident response planning and continuous improvement. We analyze the results of our assessments to refine our security strategies and enhance our detection and response protocols. By staying informed about the latest threat intelligence and attack trends, we ensure that organizations are prepared to swiftly and effectively address external breaches. Our proactive methodology fosters resilience and empowers organizations to defend against the evolving landscape of external threats.
Key Features of Our External Breach Services
- Perimeter Testing: Evaluating the security of your network perimeter to prevent unauthorized access.
- Firewall Assessment: Assessing the configuration and effectiveness of your firewalls.
- Port Scanning: Identifying open ports and services that could be exploited by attackers.
- Vulnerability Exploitation: Simulating real-world attack scenarios to identify exploitable vulnerabilities in your external-facing systems.
- Web Application Testing: Evaluating the security of public-facing web applications against common vulnerabilities.
- Network Device Testing: Assessing the security of routers, switches, and other network devices.
- Social Engineering: Conducting social engineering attacks to test your organization's susceptibility to external manipulation.
- Phishing Campaigns: Simulating email and SMS phishing attacks to assess employee awareness.
- Pretexting: Creating scenarios to trick employees into divulging sensitive information.
- Malware Delivery: Simulating the delivery and execution of malware to test your organization's defenses.
- Email Attachments: Testing the effectiveness of your email security measures against malicious attachments.
- Drive-by Downloads: Evaluating your web security controls against malicious downloads.
- Brute Force and Credential Stuffing: Testing your defenses against brute force and credential stuffing attacks.
- Password Security: Assessing the strength of your password policies and implementation.
- Multi-Factor Authentication: Evaluating the effectiveness of multi-factor authentication in preventing unauthorized access.
- Incident Response Evaluation: Assessing the effectiveness of your incident response protocols in detecting, responding to, and mitigating external breaches.
- Response Drills: Conducting drills to practice and improve your incident response capabilities.
- Post-Breach Analysis: Providing detailed analysis and recommendations for enhancing your incident response strategies.
Detailed Reporting and Remediation Guidance
Our detailed penetration testing report is written in understandable terms and provides clear and actionable information about identified vulnerabilities, their potential impact, and recommended remediation steps. This allows your team to quickly understand and start addressing issues immediately.
- Executive Summary: High-level overview of the findings aimed for management and delivered shortly after the assessment.
- Technical Details: In-depth reporting with details at every step of our penetration testing services, helping your technical teams replicate the vectors easily and remediate swiftly. Â
- Report Readout: We provide report read out for your management, accelerating the understanding of the report and clarifying any unclarities on the spot.Â
- Remediation Guidance: Post-pentest step-by-step support and guidance on how to fix identified vulnerabilities and accelerate the remediationÂ
- Free Retesting: Following the remediation of identified vulnerabilities, we offer a free retesting of all the vulnerabilities to ensure everything has been remediated.
Why Work With Us
Our team of experienced security professionals brings deep knowledge and experience of application security and the latest threat landscapes. We operate as your internal team, seeking to always understand the challenges you face and ensure you solve them, always. Work with us and experience open and transparent communication throughout the testing process providing real-time updates and insights. This collaborative approach ensures that you are always informed and can prioritize remediation efforts.
KeyPoints
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External Threat Simulation
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Vulnerability Identification
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Offensive Penetration Techniques
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Unauthorized Access Prevention
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Cyber Threat Evolution
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Advanced Testing Methodologies
Related Certifications
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Offensive Security Certified Expert
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Offensive Security Web Expert
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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Certified Ethical Hacker
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Our Approach
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We Assess
After an initial call with the client, Pretera will start working on scoping and based on the required amount of the time required to complete the work, the client will receive a detailed offer.
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We Prevent
During the assessment phase, Pretera will provide its services for which the client has paid for, and it could range from a few days assessment to a several weeks assessment.
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We Secure
Upon completion of the assessment, Pretera will deliver a detailed report of findings to the client and will offer a walk-through presentation if asked by the client.