IT Infrastructure Penetration Testing

IT infrastructure is like the nervous system of your business. It encompasses all the components that keep your organization running like a well-oiled machine. Databases, applications, operating systems, servers, storage devices – it’s the entire tech ecosystem. One simple misconfiguration in your IT infrastructure and your whole system could be at risk of an attack.

The benefits of continuous penetration testing infrastructure are significant. Above all, investing in IT infrastructure and regular security testing offers protection against cyber threats, such as ransomware and phishing attacks.

From a reputational perspective, this instills confidence in clients and stakeholders, while ensuring your organization remains compliant with regulations. In turn, you benefit from cost savings as you avoid potential financial penalties and added expenses related to the recuperation of data or lost streams of revenue. Overall, refusing to consider the advantages of IT infrastructure solutions can cause irreparable damage to your organization.

Outpace your genuine cyber threats. Don’t be the company that suffered a breach because they neglected an IT infrastructure audit. Auditing helps identify potentially devastating vulnerabilities in your system, enhance security practices, and mitigate risks. It also ensures compliance with industry standards and regulations and improves the overall performance of your business.

The protection offered by CovertSwarm’s IT infrastructure assessments ‘as a service’ has gained significant industry acclaim. With the help of external cyber security audit and testing specialists, you can benefit from a thorough auditing process that guarantees the highest level of security.

First, a comprehensive IT infrastructure assessment takes place. Next, rigorous testing will reveal the weaknesses in your system that malicious actors could potentially exploit.

Once we dive deep into your network and assess your infrastructure’s full security posture from a hacker’s perspective, we will highlight the weak areas found to be susceptible to breach. All our findings are reported in real-time via Slack/MS Teams, and our attack surface management platform, where we provide documented guidance on where changes such as tweaked architectural designs or technology reconfigurations can mitigate your discovered vulnerabilities. We’ll also provide a detailed IT infrastructure audit report detailing all the information you need to know in a context-aware and prioritised manner. No noise. Just pure security value.

As part of a subscription to CovertSwarm’ Constant Cyber Attack service this IT infrastructure optimization is then repeated again and again, so you benefit from the most secure system each and every time you make a change to your IT estate.

As a CREST-certified cyber partner to our clients, CovertSwarm follows industry best practices, with our IT infrastructure audits including:

• Comprehensive evaluation of security controls, including network access control lists 
• Vulnerability scanning
• Penetration testing
• IT infrastructure asset analysis
• Evaluation of backup recovery plans 
• Implementation of additional security measures 
• Reviews of compliance with industry standards 
• A cyber risk report 
• Recommendations for improvement 
• Real-time communication during our assessments

Depending on the specific objectives of your audits, you may benefit more from a specific type of test. For example, if your goal is to improve incident response and reduce the threat of cyber attacks, you will benefit more from infrastructure penetration tests. 

Other examples of infrastructure security testing include: 

• Vulnerability scanning 
• Compliance audits 
• Business continuity tests 

Advanced infrastructure penetration testing is a security methodology that analyzes existing vulnerabilities and weaknesses in an organization’s IT system. The infrastructure penetration testing methodology simulates a cyber attack to uncover cracks in the security system of a business.

Whether the malicious actor is an insider or external hacker, both internal and external infrastructure penetration testing is carried out to ensure the system is impenetrable from all angles.

Once potential security issues are identified by our Swarm of ethical hackers we’ll fully disclose all our findings ensuring a prioritised approach can be taken by your IT team to rapidly close the cyber risk gaps detected before moving on to the less-critical areas of weakness.

IT infrastructure modernization can reduce the likelihood of cyber threats. You can improve the technological nervous system of your company by investing in a comprehensive IT infrastructure strategy.

More specifically, organizations can implement layered security measures to regularly improve their security posture. This includes updating software, enforcing strict access restrictions, conducting regular infrastructure penetration testing, segmenting networks, and providing regular, context-specific training to employees.

It depends, are you in need of an advanced infrastructure penetration testing report or are you looking for a simple internal infrastructure penetration testing audit? The cost depends on a range of factors, including the complexity of your network, the scope of the project, and the experience of your team or IT infrastructure service provider.