Internal Penetration Testing
Know your unknowns through our internal network penetration testing service to assess, and quantify the internal infrastructure security vulnerabilities across corporate or production internal networks. It helps you to prepare a risk mitigation approach meant to reduce the attack surface and improve internal security posture – the most critical component of a corporate cyber security strategy.
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What is internal network penetration testing?
An internal network penetration test simulates an insider attack on organisational applications, systems and data. This insider could be an employee, contractor or partner who has internal access to the network.
Internal pen testing exercise in other terms establishes the true picture of an organisations’ risk posture. It helps CTOs/CISOs assess cultural practices around information storage, secure hardening, patch management, passwords analysis, active directory group policy, network equipment hardening and many more elements.
This is your assurance exercise to establish a secure and robust infrastructure for your organisation. Amongst various types of security exercises, this one is the best form to prepare against data breaches.
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How do we conduct internal network penetration test?
Vulnerabilities discovered by our internal penetration testing services
- Active directory vulnerabilities such as group policy security misconfiguration and authentication/authorisation issues
- Insecure logging and monitoring
- Network segmentation
- Patch management
- Password controls
- Insecure information storage practices
- Abusing ACLs/ACEs
- Constrained delegation
- Kerberoasting
- AS-REP Roasting
- Abuse DnsAdmins
- Passwords in AD User comments
- Password Spraying
- DCSync
- Silver Ticket
- Golden Ticket
- Pass-the-Hash
- Pass-the-Ticket
- Missing SMB Signing
- ZeroLogon
Frequently Asked Questions about Internal network Penetration Testing
Why choose Cyphere as internal penetration testing company?
Why do you need External Penetration Test?
An external security test is an important part of your cyber security program. It helps you identify vulnerabilities in your organisation that could be exploited by Internet-based attackers. External pentests allow you to assess the risk that identified vulnerabilities pose to your business. You can protect your company from cyber-attacks by identifying and mitigating these risks.
Based on the Ponemon Institute’s report, average cost of a data breach around the world has been calculated at $4.35m. However, these numbers are changing every year given the risk of data breaches due to increased attach surfaces.
What can you gain from External Penetration Testing?
External Penetration Testing can help you with a better understanding of your organisation’s security posture. By identifying security issues during security assessment, the customer is aware of their attack surface on the Internet.
External infrastructure penetration testing can help you make informed decisions about how to improve your security (e.g., hardening, information leakage, patching, etc). Network pen tests can also help you prioritize the mitigation of risks, which can help protect your business from cyber-attacks.
Benefits of Internal Pentesting
Internal Infrastructure Penetration Testing Methodology
In order to perform internal infrastructure penetration testing, it is important to understand the context of assets in the scope of the engagement. Our proven approach to security assessments is based on more than a decade of experience, industry practices and effective ways to exceed customer expectations.
Cyphere’s pentesting engagement lifecycle methodology is broken down into five phases as demonstrated in the adjacent diagram.
- Initial Scoping & Objectives Agreement
- Reconnaissance
- Scanning
- Exploitation
- Reporting – See this article about pen-testing reports
- Remediation (Optional remediation consultancy to help mitigate risks identified during penetration testing)
