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What Is the Process of Penetration

Testing

Over a period of last few years, Cyber threats have increased dramatically, breach into an
organisation's security system by hackers makes organizational infrastructure at risk. Hence creating
an organisation with a highly secured environment for IT infrastructure is crucial. Penetration testing
becomes extremely important as it helps businesses find out their vulnerabilities and proactively act
upon, before exploitation by hackers.

What is penetration testing?


It is a widely acknowledged important part of a cyber security team to perform a simulated
cyberattack on a computer system or network under secured condition, also it evaluates the safety
of a machine or an application. It involves identifying vulnerabilities in a particular network and
attempting to exploit them to penetrate into the system. This helps to assess the strength and
effectiveness of the security system of an organisation. Here we check the weaknesses (called
vulnerabilities), inclusive of the potential for unauthorized events to advantage access to the
system's features and statistics as well as strengths, permitting a full assessment to be finished.

How does it work?


We identify targeted systems, with a specific goal to identify and review given information and
initiate various steps to attain our goal. The goal of penetration testing may be a white box or a black
box or a grey box penetration test - which is a combination of both black and white box testing. A
penetration test detects possibly all vulnerabilities of a given computer for a cyberattack and
estimates its severities or risk.
Tester can identifies such vulnerability in a systematic procedures,
➢ Locating an exploitable vulnerability.
➢ Making a plan to attack around it.
➢ Test the attack.
➢ Capture a line in use.
➢ Enter the attack.
➢ Explore an entry for information recovery.
The aim of penetration testing is to determine whether a vulnerability identified is genuine. In other
words, genuine vulnerability is reflected in the report only when the pen tester manages to exploit a
potentially vulnerable spot.

What are the main phases of penetration testing?


The five main phases of penetration testing:

1) Reconnaissance: This comes as the first


phase of the penetration testing. Here the
tester collects the records from the targeted
system. Here we carry out active or passive. It
helps in gathering information about targeted
systems which also includes network
components, active machines, open ports and
access points, operating system details, etc.

2) Scanning : This is a more tool oriented


phase, which makes use of technical gear to
gather further information on the attacker's
device. In this phase more than one scanner
tools such as port scanners, network scanners,
and vulnerability scanners are used. Enough
vulnerabilities are detected by pen testers,
which helps in turn to attack targets in a more
sophisticated manner.
3) Gaining access: Using the data gathered, helps the tester to establish connection to targeted
systems. After having access, we explore vulnerabilities found may be a kind of buffer attack or
creating a threat model. This is done basically to extract more information and sensitive data from
the server.

4) Maintaining access: By maintaining access or entry to the target environment, will help further
explore, penetrate the target system in depth and collect as much data’s as possible and identify
hidden vulnerabilities to assess their risk involved.

5) Covering tasks: In this phase, any type of data gathered, log events, any traces of backlog data’s,
footprints etc. will be cleared in order to remain anonymous. The findings and detailed explanations
of the test performed are recorded.

After exploring the phase of penetration testing on a targeted system, the tester gets access to other
systems as well and tries to repeat the process in a similar manner, look for new vulnerabilities and
try to exploit them to strengthen the security system.

However, if you are thinking of cyber security services for your business or have any queries related,
you can reach out for experts at Cyber Security Hive Team, for immense service.

Cyber Security Hive is the best cyber security company in the US, India, UAE, Dubai. We provide
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