Penetration Testing (Pen Test)

Penetration Testing
(Pen Test)

Find weaknesses in critical resources and improve your security baseline by simulating malicious attacks.

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Why choose Advantio?

Securing businesses since 2009, Advantio delivers realistic services tailored to your needs. Unlike a typical vulnerability scan, Advantio’s penetration testing is a one-step-ahead service that can track your organization’s vulnerabilities with our experts and their uniquely personalized approach.

Essential to a reliable cybersecurity strategy
Identify your organization's weaknesses
Encompasses IT assets, data, people, and/or physical security
Mandated by by PCI DSS and ISO 27001

Advantio is proud to work many top clients, including:

What our clients say

“3C Payment has worked together with Advantio for almost 10 years. In that time, Advantio has successfully delivered on 3C’s growth in PCI DSS, P2PE and cyber security. Additionally, 3C has supported Advantio in their path to offer elite PCI & security consultancy. We are happy to continue our collaboration with Advantio's team, as they provide us with a professional, comprehensive service.”

TIM GOODWIN
CEO
3Cpayment

What Is Penetration Testing and Why Do You Need It?

In-depth evaluation of your organization's information security posture
Identifying areas of weaknesses in your IT environment
Uncover critical vulnerabilities in your system components

A penetration test imitates the action of an external and internal cyber attacker that aims to breach the security of your organization while using available attack vectors to compromise sensitive information. Using variously automated or manual reconnaissance and exploitation tools and techniques, the penetration tester attempts to identify and safely exploit weaknesses in people, technology, and processes to gain access to sensitive data.

Tactical Recommendations on Penetration Testing

1 Level of Awareness

Many organizations do not consider protecting their data from cyber-attacks as they often lack sufficient resources to defend themselves.

Types of penetration testing – Black, Grey, and White:

Black box penetration testers rely on dynamic analysis of currently running programs and systems within the target network
Grey box penetration testers provide a more focused and efficient assessment of a network’s security than a black-box assessment
White box penetration testers can perform static code analysis, making familiarity with source code analyzers, debuggers, and similar tools crucial for this type of testing

2 Testing Vectors

Identifying input vectors and checking attack results are sometimes incomplete. It can cause parts of the organizational component to be untested and leave vulnerabilities undiscovered.

Types of input vectors – External and Internal:

External vector aims to assess your organization’s network vulnerabilities
Identifies security issues in servers, hosts, devices, and network services
Internal vector network assesses the vulnerabilities that exist for systems that are accessible to authorized login IDs within the network

3 Target System

The level of intrusion derives from the testing your organization wishes to explore on the target system. Our experts are fully equipped and aware of the most relevant type of test for you.

Types of target – Infrastructure, Application – web & mobile, Social engineering:

An infrastructure pen-testing is a method of evaluating the security of your computing networks, infrastructure and application weaknesses by simulating a malicious attack
An application pen-testing can help you gain insight into the potential damage and business risk an attacker could inflict should they compromise your web & mobile infrastructure
Social engineering pen-testing is the attempt to gain information, access, or introduce unauthorized software into the environment through the manipulation of end-users

Payzone-Advantio Case Study

Pen Testing and other services

Advantio’s dedicated penetration testing team has provided Payzone with a full report containing a list of any mitigations needed with multi-year expert consultancy and technical support.

By the numbers

350 Combined years experience
93%
Customer
retention rate
92 Certifications issued
to clients in 2020
168 Projects
On Time & On Budget
in 2020
195 Penetration tests
in 2020

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