Identifying security vulnerabilities within your most sensitive and critical environments.
What is Internal Infrastructure Penetration Testing?
Internal infrastructure penetration testing is the security assessment of internally facing networks and systems by a trusted and experienced security consultant. An internal infrastructure penetration test will assess your the security of your critical internal networks to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could potentially be exploited by a real world adversary.
How Can Your Business Benefit From Internal Infrastructure Penetration Testing?
These are the internal environments that may be used on a daily basis to: transmit sensitive data, connect to business critical services and to store highly confidential information.
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Permission Creep
Due to internal environments not being directly exposed to the internet, various insecure configurations are often present. Penetration Testing Middle East can highlight how these insecure configurations can often lead to the full compromise of the entire organisation.
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CISO / CTO / Heads of IT / IT Security Managers
Senior staff members will have a clear picture of the internal environments and therefore make plans to introduce new policies, tooling and remediation activities.
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Engineering Teams
Network engineering and architect teams will have a clear set of defined remediatory actions that can be applied and learned from in future deployments. These can be as simple as stricter firewall rules and/or better network segmentation.
Commonly Asked Questions About Internal Infrastructure Penetration Testing
An internal infrastructure penetration test will assess your critical internal networks to identify security vulnerabilities and weaknesses. It is aimed at assessing internal networks from the position of a compromised employee or even a malicious insider.
Even if your organisation has no publicly facing infrastructure, you may find that end user devices such as laptops have access to email / internet and outbound communications. If an attacker is able to successfully compromise an end user device through one of these vectors, they may subsequently have full access to the internal environment.
An internal infrastructure penetration test will cover the following areas at the very least:
- Patching
- Secure Configurations
- Active Directory / SSO
- Password Management
- Permissions
- Network Segmentation
Penetration Testing Middle East have a variety of options to perform an internal infrastructure penetration test. This can be performed physically onsite, utilise an existing VPN solution or deploy a ‘jumpbox’ into the environment. This all depends on the exact architecture of the network and specific requirements.
If this is previously agreed, Penetration Testing Middle East will assist in all remediation activities to assist in fixing identified security vulnerabilities. This will take place alongside existing security engineering and architecture teams.
Our hand-picked and highly certified team is built off of our high levels of success within the exceptionally competitive UK market. We are a vastly experienced team looking to become industry leaders within the UAE market and as such we guarantee the highest level of service to ensure we get there.
Our Internal Infrastructure Penetration Testing Lifecycle
Our team of infrastructure testers specialise in assessing corporate networks of all sizes and complexity. Penetration Testing Middle East use both industry approved tools and custom built ‘in-house’ tools to assess your internal infrastructure, ensuring you have security visibility of your most critical environments.
Your organisation can rest assured that from start to finish, the process is as simple as can be – whilst still receiving an exceptional penetration testing service.
This is our second most popular service offering with our testers holding some of the highest qualifications and accolades available.
Penetration Testing Middle East will learn about the key features of your target environment through a scoping call or technical documentation. You can meet the team and also ask questions as needed.
A proposal will be issued detailing the items in scope, terms and conditions, cost and duration of the project. Once this contract is mutually signed, the project will be scheduled and will shortly commence.
Your dedicated penetration tester will begin enumerating the internal network to identify potential attack paths and security vulnerabilities.
Where previously agreed, Penetration Testing Middle East will assist your organisation in fully mitigating any identified risks.
A high level de-brief session will take place between Penetration Testing Middle East and your key stakeholders. This will be tailored for both executive and technical members of staff.
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Quality
You can rest assured that the quality of our penetration testing is of an extremely high standard - providing you with the assurance that you require.
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Methodologies
Our methodologies are inline with industry best practice and are based off our extensive penetration testing experience over multiple years.
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Minimal Disruption
Our services are designed to allow you to fully assess your environments without causing any significant disruption to day-to-day business activities.
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Cost Effective
We understand that different businesses have different budgets. Our team are able to work with you and your budgets to offer a bespoke service.
Your Trusted Penetration Testing Partner.
- Vastly Experienced
- Penetration Testing Is Our Core Business
- Not a "Bolt-on" Service
- Based In UAE
- Exceptional Reporting
- Fully Accredited Testers
- Experienced Throughout Almost All Industries