Cybersecurity
Penetration Testing Services
Penetration testing is an attempt by an ethical hacker to evaluate the security of an IT infrastructure by trying to exploit vulnerabilities. Our penetration testing engagements are about reconnaissance and learning as much as we can about your network and how information assets are protected. Using a combination of automated and manual analysis, our Cybersecurity Analysts identify threats and potential risks where your organization is a target for compromise. We will evaluate the security of your IT infrastructures using a controlled environment to safely attack, identify, and exploit vulnerabilities. Once vulnerabilities have been successfully exploited, our analysts will attempt to use the compromised system to launch subsequent exploits at other internal resources to access higher level assets and information.
ESC offers a customized cyber security assessment to address your organization’s unique situation. Our engagements are scoped to your requirements and mapped to best-practice penetration testing standards. This assessment will help minimize your organization’s security risks by evaluating existing security policies and plans, general security management processes, and network architecture diagrams.
Each assessment includes:
Review of information and documentation to better understand your program
Perform vulnerability and penetration testing
Summarized executive report, that includes prioritized findings and recommendations for remediation
A summarized executive report that includes any found security risks, and recommendations for remediation.
Through Penetration Testing, your organization will be more equipped to:
Assess the effectiveness of your Security Controls
Prioritize security risks
Intelligently manage vulnerabilities
Improve your overall security posture
Satisfy compliance and regulatory requirements
Preserve corporate image and customer loyalty
Avoid costs of network downtime
Endpoint Penetration Test
With the recent uptick in the remote workforce, employees find it difficult to keep their machines updated and there is a lot of room for error. Out-of-date software, plugins, and browsers, plus unpatched and unprotected systems leave remote employees even more vulnerable to attack.
Malicious hackers have been known to target remote workers, developing malware that identifies programs installed on a remote desktop and then determining whether this particular employee’s data is worth gathering. By having unpatched systems or running outdated software, a remote worker can leave the door open for cybercriminals to start the attack chain such as collecting passwords or recording keystrokes.
How does it work?
The assessment proactively hunts to identify active and dormant threats on endpoints and network egress points. Reveals instances of theft of IP or sensitive data to determine whether you are, or have been, compromised.
Features
Gives an overview of your security posture
Cyber security specialists complete a forensic-level inspection of your network
Endpoint assessment completed by a software agent generating performance metadata
Identifies unknown malware, persistent backdoors, PUPs and shadow software
Identifies malicious executables, fileless malware, hijacked processes and lateral movement
Flags security flaws and identifies past data leakage
Detailed report highlights areas investigated and explains results
Analysts supported by our own up-to-the-minute, constantly evolving intelligence
Minimal disruption to IT department and users
Undertaken worldwide, completed within four weeks and tailored to business
Benefits
Demonstrate compliance – we’ll help you meet strict compliance requirements, to strengthen your information security risk methodology. Our clear report details any data breaches, as well as your overall cyber health, which can provide reassurance to your customers and suppliers.
No user disruption – the Compromise Assessment is non-intrusive, so your users won’t be aware it’s taking place. Our agent operates in low priority, ensuring user activity is unaffected and daily operations are not interfered with, blocked or denied.
Understand your threats – Our agent gathers performance metadata, which is inspected by our analysts to detect:
o Unknown malware, such as droppers, trojans and worms
o Persistent backdoors that allow attackers to maintain a foothold in your network
o Potentially unwanted programs which increase your attack surface
Vulnerability Assessments
Vulnerability assessments gather information about your network and IT infrastructure to identify any exploits and vulnerabilities that attackers can use to break in. ESC’s Cybersecurity Analysts use the exact discovery techniques that an attacker may use to identify assets on your network that are open to known vulnerabilities and weaknesses. Results from our assessments will cover the scope of your network and support your requirements against safeguarding your network.
ESC’s assessments uncover thousands of vulnerabilities and prioritize them into a qualitative representation (critical, high, medium, low), taking into consideration high priority findings along with the likelihood of the vulnerability being used in a real world attack. For example, certain vulnerabilities may only have a moderate risk score, but if they could be used as a pivot point to reach other vulnerabilities or resources, they could have significant consequences to your organization.
With an ever changing network environment, IT professionals recommend frequent vulnerability testing to ensure your organization maintains a strong security posture.
Phishing Campaigns
Through phishing, a malicious threat actor will send an email to a user, falsely claiming to be a legitimate organization when he is actually attempting to scam the user into giving up private information that he will use for identity theft.
Phishing plays a large role in over 90% of security incidents. Our simulated phishing campaigns are designed to assess your employee’s ability to avoid being phished and improve your organizations overall security awareness. Our consultants customize phishing campaigns based on your business environment that serve as a training opportunity to help you understand your organizations added risks. Any employees who fails the simulation, will automatically be directed to additional cybersecurity awareness training. Many IT professionals have realized that simulated phishing attacks are need as an additional layer of security for your organization.
Our Phishing Campaign can help you to:
Satisfy compliance and regulatory requirements
Adapt future testing to employees of greater risk
Reduce the number of employee clicks on malicious emails
Network Infrastructure Assessments
Our consultants analyze the security configurations and architecture of your network devices (firewalls, routers, switches) and report on their weakness and vulnerabilities. Reporting includes the risk to your organization, details on how to exploit the vulnerability, and recommended remediation for the network device.
