What is network penetration testing?
Secure and robust infrastructure is fundamental to your organisation’s cyber security. Given the financial costs of suffering a breach, it is advisable to perform regular internal and external penetration testing to identify and help address vulnerabilities.
Types of network penetration testing
Network penetration testing, also known as Infrastructure penetration testing, can be performed from two perspectives: inside and outside your organisation’s network perimeter.
Internal network penetration testing
An internal network pen test is performed to help gauge what an attacker could achieve with initial access to a network. An internal network pen test can mirror insider threats, such as employees intentionally or unintentionally performing malicious actions.
External network penetration testing
An external network pen test is designed to test the effectiveness of perimeter security controls to prevent and detect attacks as well as identifying weaknesses in internet-facing assets such as web, mail and FTP servers.
Vulnerabilities detected by our network penetration testing service
- Insecure configuration parameters
- Ineffective firewall rules
- Unpatched systems
- Software flaws
- Weak encryption protocols
- Inadequate security controls
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