NETWORK SECURITY

Why do i need VA & PT?

Statistics reveal that over 70% of applications have vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers, or have already been compromised. Data losses typically fall two categories: either confidential to the organization or private to individuals. In both cases, these breaches can result in significant financial loss or damage to reputation.

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What is Vulnerability Assessment or VA?

Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is a systematic, proof-concept approach aimed at identifying weaknesses within an organization's network or IT infrastructure, to effectively manage risks and secure their systems.

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What is Penetration Testing or PT?

Penetration Testing (PT) goes a step further than VA. While VA identifies both obvious and hidden vulnerabilities, PT attempts to validate these vulnerabilities and assess the potential impact they could have if by a real-world attacker.

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Our approach & Methodology on VA & PT.

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​​​​Our methodology employs both manual and automated checks on critical IT assets to assess and prioritize vulnerabilities, helping clients and manage identified issues. Vulnerability Assessments are conducted non-intrusively, ensuring minimal disruption to the organization's IT. Our careful execution of Penetration Tests ensures that clients experience little to no impact during the testing phase.

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Intelligence Gathering

This initial phase of our network testing involves comprehensive information gathering, including in-depth port scanning, service fingerprinting and enumeration, to compile a complete list of devices and gather extensive information. The goal is to identify potential entry points and enumerate attack vectors.

Threat modelling

The results from the intelligence gathering phase inform this stage, where assets categorized into threat categories based on manual testing methodologies, and potential threats to each asset are evaluated.

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Vulnerability Analysis

In this phase, we analyze and document discovered vulnerabilities, confirm their existence, and conduct further tests to validate reported vulnerabilities.

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Exploitation

The confirmed vulnerabilities undergo testing to determine the extent to which an attacker could exploit, which is the essence of the Penetr Testing phase. This includes assessing issues such as password auditing, SQL injection, Cross Site Scripting (XSS), exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities, and bypassing access controls.