Quick Look At Pentesting

Asirinaidu P
Jul 24, 2017 · 3 min read

Are you often listening the term Security Breach in the news or social channels? Been seeing a lot of cases where thousands of websites hacked and have lots billions of dollars? If yes, this is the time you should consider getting extra security for your personal or organizational data.

Penetration testing is to check how secure a website is, to take precautions to avoid it being hacked. There are several tools that were developed to mimic Realtime attacks, and to identify security gaps. This report can be utilized as a book for enhancing security by exploiting different vulnerabilities pentesting will help you in setting the benchmark for your business and service applications.

Today, most real-world applications are deployed over cloud as Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Clouds will permit to conduct pentesting. Sunera Technologies has a range of highly experienced certified professionals in all cloud platforms to help customers. For more details visit Sunertech.

Exploit Vulnerabilities with Penetration Testing:

Generally, most businesses will have pentesting team which is ideally a group of security professionals. If a business does not have a team to do this job, there is a possible way of outsourcing it to a third-party organization. Penetration testing starts with a High-end security professional to investigate the network and the systems. In a network, it conducts complete scanning about each system, on their open ports along with hosted services on that port.

The below scenarios are a few rare cases:

1. Inside a company’s network every service properly configured on port

2. Authentication for services hosted

3. Every service has completely patched (This is a fully up-to-date scenario)

Once scanning is done on a network, a pen tester will get good understanding about the whole network and network services used for a business. Now, the pentesting tools can be used to exploit vulnerabilities.

Testing Security:

As per a Pentester, compromising a system with network user credentials is not a big deal. Another common way of testing security is through simulating web application with a phishing attack. In phishing attack, user communication methods are used to continence destination. For example, alerting a user by sending mandatory password resets. This kind of automated channels will help penetration testers to get understanding and assess the security.

Penetration Testing Tools:

Penetration testers are major assets to network security. As today’s applications reached to multi-tier architecture, penetration tester will test the vulnerabilities before a hacker does, from all the levels of application. Penetration testing tools will help a teste through their opensource and licensed tools. Metasploit is a widely used tool for pentesting. It helps the pentesting team to simulate the real-world attacks. Installation, configuring and setting credentials to pentesting tools in different environments reduces attacks.

Benefits of using Pentesting tools:

1. Penetration testing tools save time by automating the real workflow without losing the effectiveness

2. Large teams working on this tool will allow to work in collaboration

3. Tools will result significant reports

4. Patterns can be extracted easily and utilized effectively. In addition to extracting patterns, a significant amount of data can be extracted

5. Simulation tool automates the attack so Security professionals can focus on other skilled work.

Do let me know your thoughts by writing to me at Asirinaidu.Paidi@suneratech.com or use the comments section below.

For more details on security services and pentesting support, visit http://www.suneratech.com/

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