About Penetration Testing and Red Team attack
A red team attack utilizes the art of discovering, arming, and exploiting of weaknesses and vulnerabilities. The activity begins with reconnaissance activities, external and internal asset discovery, mapping of key personnel and building a multi vector attack structure.
While a red team attack is focused on an entire organization, a penetration test targets a specific asset in the network, web applications, processes, devices or people.
A penetration test takes the perspective of an outside hacker or an internal individual with malicious intent. This may not always involve technology; however, technical controls are a big part of preventing data compromise, exploitation and damages.
Why should you conduct a penetration test?
Even with the strongest IT and Cyber Security in place, existing vulnerabilities expose your company to imminent risks. Those gaps might be as unsuspecting as a database, an application, website access or even companies’ employees.
Any of those focal points may provide a direct access into confidential data such as financials, patient information, strategic or classified documents.
Pentest services dive deeper to pinpoint pathways to access, ranking the potential value of each and providing a clear road map for ongoing security. A penetration test is not only smart business practise but also an annual requirement for those who must remain in compliance with leading regulations like PCI, FERPA, HITECH, FISMA, SOX, GLBA, FATCA an GDPR.
