PENETRATION TESTING
Ethical Hacking is an authorized way of hacking attempt targeting an organization’s IT infrastructure, applications and staff, to gain the access into its virtual assets.This kind of assessment looks for protection troubles and vulnerabilities on the inside of your company community with the identical bodily get right of entry to as a member of team of workers or other kinds of worker who has get right of entry to to the building.Penetration test is also an ethical hack which is performed in a controlled environment.
The testing process is layered, and performed in four stages
External penetration testing (also known as external network penetration testing) is a security assessment of an organization’s perimeter systems. Your perimeter comprises all those systems which are directly reachable from the internet. By nature, they are the most exposed systems as they are out in the open and are therefore the most easily and regularly attacked.
The main purpose of an external Pentest is to find ways to compromise your accessible (external) systems and services, gain access to sensitive information, and discover methods an attacker could use to attack your clients or users. In a high quality external Pentest, the security professional(s) conducting the assessment replicate the activities of real hackers, including executing exploits to attempt to gain control of systems. They will also test the extent of any weaknesses discovered to see how far a malicious attacker could burrow into your network and on what scale the business impact of a successful attack would be.
