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    Let Advantage help manage and reduce your cyber security risks. We can help you to simulate the latest cyber-attacks and threats to enable us to assess your weaknesses and help you comprehend your security flaws via our dedicated penetration testing services. 

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Protect your business from all forms of attack

When looking to protect your business against all forms of attack, you need to start the process by assessing your existing setup. 

The thing is when it comes to cyber security, no business is completely safe from cyber-attacks. It is often the case where cybercriminals look to expose security weaknesses such as unpatched systems and software to get round any form of defence in place. You will find that zero-day threats are a much higher risk to your business as hackers look to explore new ways to get into your existing systems. Therefore, it is extremely important for your business to ensure that regular assessments and penetration testing are carried out if you want to keep on top of cyber security trends.  

Advantage’s penetration testing and cyber security assessment offering has been designed by our team of cyber security specialists who will look to highlight any potential weakness big or small in your security so they can be resolved before hackers exploit them. 

You will find that our system can simulate the same tactics, techniques and procedures often used by cybercriminals in a controlled manner which helps to guarantee that no damage will be done to your existing systems. Taking this one step further, this also includes comprehensive testing across all of your devices, servers, hosts and network services that your business has in place. 

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What is penetration testing?


You will find that penetration testing (sometimes known as pen tests) has been created to try and reveal any weaknesses your business has across its IT systems that could be exploited and used to attack your business. 

Even though a vulnerability scan will make use of automated tools to look for potential security issues, a penetration test goes even further as it is carried out by a system which looks to replicate a whole host of tactics, techniques and approaches utilised by cybercriminals to expose your weaknesses to help illustrate their real-life impact.  

Through the use of this, you are able to proactively identify and fix any security vulnerabilities. At Advantage we can help you to both manage and improve your security standing, enabling you to keep any attackers at bay. 

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Pen testing is an essential element of the overall cyber security strategy across your business


Given how cyber threats develop and change over time, it is important to ensure that doing penetration testing on a regular basis forms a vital part of your overall cyber security strategy. 

Does penetration testing have to be done from a legal security point of view? Businesses that have to meet standards such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001 will need to conduct at least one pen test annually. However, it is important to note that you should be doing penetration testing more regularly than that to ensure that you reduce any risks associated with any new vulnerabilities that are discovered. 

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What is involved in the penetration testing process?


Through the use of dedicated threat intelligence and ethical hacking techniques, we will use this to simulate an attempt to attack your IT systems, looking for any potential weaknesses that could lead to your business systems being compromised. Furthermore, we will also help your business to highlight and prioritise any risk in order of severity to help you to increase your security and keep you in the driving seat when it comes to cyber security. 

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What are the main methods of penetration testing?


You will find that our network penetration testing services gives you an overall assessment of your IT environment and how it can stand up to any form of cyber-attack. By taking advantage of any exploits both inside and outside your business, we will show you how a hacker could potentially gain access to your business systems. 

The two main methods for this are as follows: 

External infrastructure penetration test 

You will notice that an external pen test is used to demonstrate how an attacker may gain remote access to your internal network by taking advantage of security flaws that are present on your boundary devices such as firewalls. 

At Advantage, we will comprehensively test all of your internet-facing assets which includes firewalls, line of business apps, email servers as well as domain name servers. During the whole process of conducting an external pen test, our role would be to highlight any flaws that could lead to your external network perimeter being penetrated. 

Internal infrastructure penetration test 

You will find that our internal pen test will look to determine what an insider attacker could do if they gained initial access to your network. This could be a cybercriminal that has broken through your external firewall or managed to gain access to remote access login credentials via phishing attacks or a rogue employee who looks to disrupt the system and steal potentially sensitive data to hold to ransom. 

At Advantage, we will look to repeat the actions of malicious insiders to help you highlight any risk and how to protect your business from this form of activity such as data theft and operational disruption. 

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