Penetration Testing – Foundation

In today’s ever changing threat landscape, it’s a challenging task for the IT Infrastructure team to ensure that their IT systems are secured against sophisticated and damaging cyber threats. Even after deploying multiple layers of security controls, the organizations have a concern on whether hackers can break into their defense to potentially compromise their critical systems and data. The goal of penetration testing is to determine if unauthorized access to critical systems and information can be achieved. If access is obtained, the vulnerabilities needs to be fixed and the penetration testing has to be re-performed until it is proved that the system no longer allows unauthorized access or other malicious activity.

Penetration Testers help the organizations to address these concerns by simulating the attack scenarios on the existing IT infrastructure. They exploit the vulnerabilities on the existing systems, gain access into the network, and escalate the privileges so as to have full control of the targeted server or application. Thus Penetration Testing enables organizations to identify the possible security gaps in Information Systems so that they s can strengthen their cyber security controls thereby minimizing the risks of real time cyber attacks.