Penetration Testing
Penetration testing, often referred to as Pentesting, is a crucial practice within the realm of cybersecurity. It involves the systematic simulation of cyberattacks on a computer system, network, or application to uncover vulnerabilities and weaknesses that malicious actors could exploit. The primary goal of Pentesting is to assess the security posture of an organization's digital infrastructure, identifying potential points of entry for unauthorized access, data breaches, or other security incidents. By emulating real-world attack scenarios, pentesters help organizations understand their vulnerabilities and develop effective strategies to fortify their defenses. This proactive approach to cybersecurity is indispensable in an era where cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity.
Our experts have the ability to perform reverse engineering of malware and any suspect applications to obtain valuable information in order to drive new security content used to protect the entire customer base from future compromises. We can also perform PCI and vulnerability scans to determine at-risk systems for either compliance violations or known exploits. We have been driving efforts for over two decades in Cybersecurity monitoring of IT infrastructure. Our specialized team of Cybersecurity experts can carry out ongoing threat investigations and analysis, delivering recommended prevention, and remediation steps. We deliver threat assessment reports that identify risks to your infrastructure, based on threat intelligence mined from a variety of internal and external sources.
SOCIAL ENGINEERING PENTEST
Social Engineering is one of the tools used by hackers to become more sophisticated with their attacks, it becomes easier for them to breach a company. The Client engaged THE ICT WEB to perform penetration testing to fulfill a compliance requirement and to test their security posture against realistic attacks. The Organization provides insurance companies, self-insured organizations, and government entities claim adjusting and administration services including, but not limited to:
Aiming to enhance the protection of the online services against cyber attacks, The financial institution needed to identify all security weaknesses of the utilized web applications and mitigate the risk of misusing the network services. THE ICT WEB Cybersecurity Services extend your IT teams capacity to protect applications, computing, and network infrastructure with advanced security solutions that are fully managed, easy to implement, and do not require large upfront investments. Our Managed Cybersecurity Services offering is constantly updated, so they can deal with evolving threats in a smart and highly responsive manner.
SOLUTION
Social Engineering Attack (Penetration testing) – The ICT WEB team began the social engineering engagement by sending phishing emails to the Organization, which directed the employees to a spoofed variant and URL of the Organization’s website. The email and website requested that a user change their password and, as part of the process, provide their current username and password.
THE ICT WEB conducted penetration testing of the Organization’s technology, people, and processes. Penetration testing included web applications, external IP addresses, internal network components, as well as social engineering attacks. We followed a testing methodology that seeks to identify vulnerabilities and, through exploitation, determine the impact on the Organization’s business operations.
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PENETRATION TESTING RESULTS
The results of the penetration testing indicated that the area of greatest risk for the Organization was found during social engineering attacks. The Organization’s employees were tricked into disclosing their usernames and passwords. Security awareness of employees is an important part of the overall security posture of any organization and it is often overlooked.
The phishing email was sent to 25 employees and successfully reached 23 inboxes. The results are shown below, indicating 11 employees clicked the link and 4 entered their credentials providing access to THE ICT WEB. At this point, ICT WEB could log into users’ email accounts and search for sensitive information or connect to the internal network. The attack also provided insight into potential patterns in the employee’s creation of passwords, which could result in additional compromise.
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To prevent this from happening in the future, the Organization was advised to train the employees to check the URL and security of a website before entering any suspicious information into it. Employees should know how to verify the legitimacy of a website and what the Organization’s procedures are on reporting suspicious websites. They should have easy access (such as through email or a ticketing system) to contact management and or internal information technology staff to ask questions about any website they may encounter.
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