Top 10 Reasons for Penetration Testing

1. Top 10 Reasons for Penetration Testing After joining the Connectis cyber security team, I’ve been asked several times about ”what is Penetration Testing and what are the Top 10 Reasons for Penetration Testing? I decided elaborate on why Penetration Testing is so important. Not only will I explain what pen testing is, but I’ll also address why this is important to add to your cyber defenseframework. Here’s a layman’s explanation for Penetration Testing (Pen Test for short). A Pen Test is a simulation of a possible cyber attack against your organization’s IT infrastructure – your computer system, network, facilities, and web application firewall. The test checks for a very wide variety of vulnerabilities, and is conducted by performed by an ethical professional with no maliciousintent. Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Perform PenetrationTesting

2. 1. Proactively identify your security weaknesses – The main purpose of Pen Testing is to find exploitable vulnerabilities before a hacker does so that they can be patched and fixed immediately. During Pen Testing, we identify and evaluate key attack vectors an attacker could use to compromise your organization’s critical data and assets. And, at the conclusion of the test, the Connectis Cyber Security consultant delivers a comprehensive Summary of Findings report of verified exploitable vulnerabilities and other issues uncovered in your environment, providing the guidance you’ll need to prioritize and complete required remediationactivities.

3. 2.Combine machine analysis:Benefitfrom custom tools and intelligence Connectis advanced with Cyber manual human Security testing techniques, which can help reduce false positives and uncover complex, emerging, or obscure vulnerabilities that automated scans alone often miss. 3. Assess your defenses – Discover not only how an attacker might breach your existing defenses, but how deeply they can penetrate your environment while escaping detection. We evaluate how deeply an experienced, motivated attacker can penetrate your environment using security weaknesses that automated tools might miss, such as by exploiting a high-risk vulnerability created from a sequence of lower-riskvulnerabilities. 4.Protect damages yourbrand–Acyberattack a company economically notonly butthe organization’sbrand,reputationandintellectual property could beaffected. 5. Keep the business afloat and service unexpected whirlpools – Penetration testing helps stopbreaches

4. beforetheyleadtoacostlyandtraumaticsecurity compromise.Pentestingshould organizations’ budget and part beinevery of regularIT expenses. Without proactive testing,it’s not a matter of if you’ll be hacked, but when. Once the organization has a data breach, if recovery is even possible, it can cost millions of dollars in IT remediation efforts, customer protection and retention issues and legalities. Many small-to-mid- size companies can be out of business within six months of a seriousbreach. 6. Gain Visibility – Pen testing lets your IT professionals measure risk and evaluate the consequences of what an attack may have on resources andoperations. 7. Preserve corporate network periodically keeping yourclients, image – By keeping your checked, you are in turn customers, employees,and company data, IP, and trade secrets confidential and and maintain favorable service ratings from regulatoryexaminers. 8. Meet compliance – PCI penetration tests have specific goals set forth by the PCI SecurityStandards

5. Council Testing DataSecurityStandards will help you to meet (PCI-DSS).Pen complianceand regulatory requirements for long-term success and ensure compliance with frequently changing PCI-DSS requirements. 9. Third Party’s objective Point of View – Understand the full business impact of a real-world attack and gain a thorough, third-party understanding of your organization’s security posture. Besides,benefit fromexpert remediation consultants. guidanceonprioritizationand fromConnectisCyberSecurity Comprehensive Reports – Receive a comprehensive report of identified vulnerabilities, including assessments of potential impact, exploit likelihood, effort to remediate, and recommended remediation path. Utilize prioritization and remediation guidance from our experts to determine your highest priorities forremediation. Work with experts, who have ethical hackers on staff – When you engage Connectis cyber security forpentesting,youareinfactworkingwithan

6. expert, our consultants with years of penetration testing experience, has complete familiarity with how organizations run and how attackers operate. 12. Keep executive management informed about your organization’s risk level – While it is obvious that executives won’t have the time to review a penetration test report in its entirety, the executive summary and / or findings overview willprovide them with organization’s understand, valuable security non-technical insights posture terms abouttheir ineasy-to- andmaintain favorable service ratings from regulatoryexaminers. Lastly, penetration testing can provide evidence regarding the security controls that are in place and hence justifies continued or additional investment in security personnel and technology to executive management andinvestors. Connectishas helped many organizations to solve the toughest challenges faced by them across an ever- evolving digital threat landscape. Our solutions enable clients to find, fix, stop, and ultimately solve Cyber Security problems across their entire enterpriseand

7. product portfolios. We test your internal and external networks with a combination of automated sweeps and detailed manualtesting.