Network Penetration Testing: Assess Your Security Before Attackers Do
If your business was hacked tomorrow, do you know what would happen? Protecting your valuable assets and customer data is paramount in today's digital landscape. Alongside robust security software, regular network penetration tests play a critical role, and these tests are precisely what cybersecurity insurers will look for when assessing your policy.
What is Network Penetration Testing?
Network penetration testing is a security test where experts try to hack into an organization’s computer network to find vulnerabilities and weaknesses. It’s like a “mock” hack to see if a hacker could get in and cause damage. The goal is to identify any problems and fix them before a real hacker can take advantage. It’s basically a way to check the security of an organization’s network.
How Do Data Breaches Occur?
A data breach occurs when a cybercriminal infiltrates a data source and extracts confidential information. This can be done by accessing a computer or network to steal local files or by bypassing network security remotely. The most common cyber attacks used in data breaches are outlined below.
Ransomware
This software gains access to and locks down access to vital data. Files and systems are locked down and a fee is demanded commonly in the form of cryptocurrency.
Common Target: Enterprise companies and businesses
Malware
Commonly referred to as “malicious software,” Malware is a term that describes any program or code that harmfully probes systems.
Common Target: Individuals and businesses
Phishing
These scams are one of the most common ways hackers gain access to sensitive or confidential information. Phishing involves sending fraudulent emails that appear to be from a reputable company, with the goal of deceiving recipients into either clicking on a malicious link or downloading an infected attachment, usually to steal financial or confidential information.
Common Target: Individuals and businesses
Denial of Service
This is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet. It is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled.
Common Target: Sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers such as banks
Why You Need Penetration Testing
- Demonstrate real-world risk by simulating a malicious hacker
- Understand how attackers target your most confidential/sensitive data
- Evaluate current security detection monitoring controls
- Provide remediation strategies to mitigate risk
Penetration Testing is Worth Every Penny
Using the results of a penetration test, your organization can identify ways to protect its most valuable data by reducing the number of attack vectors and accessible paths to sensitive resources and systems.
We offer two different network penetration testing services to guide your organization to a better security posture and program.
Internal Network Penetration Testing
Internal Network Penetration Testing
External Network Penetration Testing
External Network Penetration Testing
Why Use NzingaNet for Penetration Testing
Backed by Security Experts
Our solution combines the knowledge, skills, logic, and toolsets of certified penetration testers.
Meet your Compliance/Cyber Insurance Requirements
By having the ability to perform a quality network penetration test whenever you want and however often you want, your organization can be assured that it will continuously meet security best practices and compliance regulations.
We make Penetration Testing More Affordable
Our solution is typically about 50% the cost of other providers. We deploy the latest technology that helps our team perform penetration testing more efficiently and we pass those savings to bring you pentesting at an affordable cost.
We also provide the ability to do monthly penetration testing at no additional cost.
We make Penetration Testing More Efficient
We provide real-time results and deliver reports within days, instead of weeks or months.
Ready to Get Started?
Book your meeting with us to get started! We’ll ask you questions to understand your current network, what we need to conduct the assessment, and factor in how your business works and your goals so that we can tailor our insights to you. After the meeting, we’ll conduct the assessment and send you your own network health report with actionable steps that your business can take to improve network performance and security.