Penetration Testing Services

Threats tend to occur where security officers expect them the least. Naturally, an intruder won’t spend months trying to force a well-locked door, but will look for weak points and vulnerabilities in those information systems where security isn’t a priority. The combination of negligence and seemingly minor vulnerabilities may end up with serious consequences and lead to the system being compromised. The acknowledged way to reduce such risks is to employ penetration testing.

To prevent your organization from possible breaches and reinforce existing security controls against a skilled attacker, ScienceSoft’s team offers penetration testing services based on a custom plan of a multistep attack that targets custom network infrastructure and applications.

We recommend to fulfill a pentest in case if:

Regularly scheduled analysis and assessments are required by regulatory mandates.
New network infrastructure or applications were added.
Significant upgrades or modifications to infrastructure or applications were made.
New office locations were established.
End-user policies were modified.
Corporate IT was significantly changed.

Ethical Hacking to Prevent a Potential Intrusion

ScienceSoft offers complete penetration testing designed to identify system vulnerabilities, validate existing security measures and provide a detailed remediation roadmap.

Our team, equipped with the latest tools and industry-specific test scenarios, is ready to deliver a thorough checkup to pinpoint system vulnerabilities, as well as flaws in application, service and OS, loopholes in configurations, and potentially dangerous non-compliance with security policies.

ScienceSoft performs the following types of a penetration test:

Network services test.
Web application security test.
Client-side security test.
Remote access security test.
Social engineering test.
Physical security test.

We apply 3 recognized penetration testing methods:

Black Box testing (external testing).
White Box testing (internal testing).
Grey Box testing (combination of both above-mentioned types).

3 Steps of a Penetration Test

Pre-attack phase / Planning

Defining the intruder model (internal or external, enabled rights and privileges).
Defining goals, source data, scope of work and testing targets.
Determining the scope of a target environment.
Developing the testing methodology.
Defining interaction and communication procedures.

Attack phase / Testing

Fieldwork, service identification.
Custom scanning or intrusion tools are developed if needed.
Vulnerabilities detection and scanning, elimination of false positives.
Vulnerabilities exploit and gaining an unauthorized access.
Utilization of compromised systems as a springboard for further intrusion.

Post-attack phase / Reporting

Result analysis and reporting with recommendations for reducing risks.
Visual demonstration of the damage that can be inflicted to the system by an intruder.

Additionally, we can also eliminate the detected vulnerabilities.

Deliverables

At the end of the penetration testing procedure, we provide our customers with an extensive set of reports and recommendations to effectively eliminate the detected breaches:

Brief description based on the achieved results and findings.
List of detected system vulnerabilities and their classification according to how easy they are to exploit and how harmful for the system and business they may be.
List of changes in the system that were implemented during testing.
Test protocol (including instruments and tools used, parts that were checked and issues found).
Actionable recommendations to eliminate the revealed security issues.

Security Testing Benefits

Complete view of vulnerabilities

We provide detailed information on real security threats, help to identify the most critical and less significant vulnerabilities along with false positives, so that the Customer can prioritize remediation, apply needed security patches and allocate security resources.

Regulatory compliance (GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FISMA/NIST)

The detailed reports generated after penetration testing help to avoid fines for non-compliance and allow to illustrate due diligence to auditors by maintaining required security controls.

Avoiding the cost of system/network downtime

ScienceSoft’s team provides specific guidance and recommendations to avoid financial pitfalls by identifying and addressing risks before attacks or security breaches occur.

Why ScienceSoft?

Successfully completed penetration tests in Healthcare, Financial Services, Telecom and other domains.
Strong information security competences.
Safe and controlled activities to keep the tested system undamaged.
Experience in development of custom tools (scripts, exploits).
Experience in auditing configuration files and source codes (white box).
Checking any threat from WASC threat classification.

Protect Your Business Now

Please contact our security experts and they will help you to choose an optimal model of a penetration testing that will allow you to detect current weaknesses and eliminate them promptly.