July 8th, 2021
With the advancements in technology increasing every year, it is becoming increasingly more common for the occasional person to maliciously target products and organizations. This is where penetration testing (also known as pentesting) comes into play. Performing a controlled penetration test on your system can help identify vulnerabilities before someone with malicious intent finds and abuses them.
If you’re looking for a penetration test to be performed on your system by our specialists at SecureState, contact us and schedule a demo!
What Is Pentesting?
In short, pentesting is a simulated cyberattack on a system or application. However, that is just the start of it. Experts in the cybersecurity field stage cyberattacks on everything from devices, networks, applications, and more with the goal of finding and reporting vulnerabilities in a system.
The goal here at SecureState is to return to the client a detailed report and assistance from our ethical hackers on fixing any found vulnerabilities! If you would like to learn more about pentesting and what it is, please check out our other blog!
Why You Need A Pentest?
Penetration testing should be a common occurrence in every application. In this ever-growing age of technology and online systems, security breaches have become increasingly more common. This is what our team of ethical hackers at Secure State specialize in.
Having pentests performed on your application or system is extremely beneficial to the overall security and longevity of your application. Depending on the type of penetration test that fits your needs, our team of ethical hackers launches targeted attacks on your system to mimic the attacks you would receive from real-world malicious hackers. Maintaining a regular pentesting schedule would ensure that your application is always compliant with the latest industry security standards. Applying penetration tests more frequently to your application also serves as maintenance for any updates or source code changes to ensure the health and security of the application.
Benefits of Pentests
Security specialists trained in conducting black box, white box, and other types of security analysis provide much more in protecting your application than anyone from your IT team could. With the perspective of an outsider trying to find holes in an application, they provide increased value in what they can give you in return. A regular schedule of penetration testing can result in:
- Identifying and prioritizing low, medium, and high-risk vulnerabilities in your application
- Detailed report of vulnerabilities and assistance on how to establish fixes. This allows for the client to stop future attacks before they can begin.
- Outlining major strengths and weaknesses in your system defense
- Finding niche risks through in-depth assessments that utilize both manual and automated testing
- Ensuring the product is compliant with HIPPA, SOX, PCI, or DSS industry standards
- Discovering vulnerabilities in major updates before they go live.
The benefits listed here are only a part of the nearly endless list of protections that a company can take advantage of. Most importantly, scheduling regular penetration tests will give your company’s clients peace of mind knowing their data is safe and under constantly evolving protection!
⁉️ How We Do It
SecureState uses a combination of automated tools and manual testing to provide a hybrid approach that includes proactive and reactive security testing activities. Our team has decades of cybersecurity experience with some of the largest tech companies including AWS, VMware, Google and Nintendo.
Take the first step to security and schedule a call today!