Penetration Testing
Secure Your Organisation with Expert Penetration Testing
Good security practice involves regularly testing your IT infrastructure, including AI and LLM environments, for vulnerabilities and exploitable weaknesses. Penetration testing, also known as Pen Testing or ethical hacking, is an authorised simulation of an attack on a computer system, such as a network, application, or other critical infrastructure. This process mimics the actions of a hacker, allowing your organisation to uncover and address security weaknesses before they can be exploited.
By assessing whether your IT and AI systems are susceptible to a cyber-attack, you can effectively plan, repair, and strengthen your organisation’s defences. Our Pen Testing services provide comprehensive evaluations to ensure all aspects of your technology environment are secure.
With CyberCrowd's assessment services, organisations bolster their defences against evolving cyber threats.
Our certified Pen Testers, equipped with Security Clearance (SC) and Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) level 2 certifications, specialise in testing organisations of all sizes, including critical national infrastructure, defence, government, and NHS sectors. Their expertise ensures thorough testing to uphold strong security measures and safeguard against evolving cyber threats.
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Penetration Testing for AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
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CyberCrowd offer two types of assessments:
Vulnerability Assessment: Automated scans using diverse tools to identify system vulnerabilities. These scans are conducted frequently to catch potential weaknesses early.
Penetration Test: Builds on vulnerability scans by leveraging expert skills to uncover deeper vulnerabilities not detected by automated tools. Our testers simulate real attacks to exploit weaknesses, providing comprehensive insights and actionable recommendations.
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What is a vulnerability assessment?
What is a penetration test?
Identify Risk and Vulnerabilities
Often weaknesses are hidden within the complexities of a systems design. By identifying them any issues in the system's deployment will be brought to your attention.
Build strong defences
By reviewing current weaknesses within your system you will not only be able to rectify such vulnerabilities but also use this knowledge to prevent further exploitation.
Protection
For both yourself and your customers.
Accreditation
Various accreditations from ISO27001 to Cyber Essentials require organisations to take a proactive stance to identify the potential threats within their IT system.
CyberCrowd is a CREST-certified provider of penetration testing services, ensuring that our approach and methodology meet the highest standards of approval.
Intelligence gathering
This phase of the engagement involves using a range of tools and techniques such as active scanning, open-source intelligence (OSINT.) This involves; search closed sources, search open websites and domains, foot printing and identifying protection methods.
Vulnerability Analysis
The vulnerability analysis aims to discover flaws within a system and an application that could be exploited by an attacker. The flaws can be misconfigurations or insecure platforms. Techniques used vary from automated vulnerability scanners, metadata analysis, traffic monitoring, public research, common/default password databases.
Post exploitation
This phase of the engagement is to determine how crucial the machine is in the network, as well as maintain access to the machine if the test is scheduled to last a few days. Determining how critical the machine is will be identified by the sensitivity of the data stored on the machine and its usefulness to further exploits into the network. Post exploitation methods include infrastructure analysis, pillaging, data exfiltration, persistence, and further penetration into the infrastructure. CyberCrowd testers will clean up the system removing any evidence of their presence.
Exploitation
The exploitation phase of a penetration test focuses on gaining access to the system or resource by different methods depending on the intelligence gathered in previous steps. This phase should be a well-planned and specific attack. Methods vary from, but are not limited to, initial access, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and credential access.
Reporting
The final phase of the engagement is to produce a document that outlines any misconfigurations and exploits found with the supporting evidence cleanly and understandably. The report is broken into two distinct sections. The first of which is the executive summary which is aimed at those that oversee the security of the company and it will explain the goals of the engagement and any high-level findings. Then there is the technical report that is aimed towards the remediators of any issues found and will have more depth to the vulnerabilities found. For example, information, the attack path impact, and remediation suggestions.
Get Ahead with Threat-Led Penetration Testing (TLPT)
TLPT simulates real-world cyber-attacks to expose critical vulnerabilities that could impact your business. Unlike standard tests, TLPT uses advanced threat intelligence and red team tactics to provide an authentic view of your cyber resilience.
CyberCrowd’s certified professionals deliver TLPT with industry-leading expertise, ensuring you’re protected with full risk management reporting, data confidentiality, and compliance with the latest standards.