What you need to know about Security with Penetration Testing?

In today’s IT world, security had become a primary concern and thousands of projects are initiated every other day to look for any improvisations and breakthrough in the same. Penetration Testing is one such evolution. Let us examine about Penetration Testing in detail.

A penetration test, or pen test, is an attempt to evaluate the security of an IT infrastructure by safely trying to exploit vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may exist in operating systems, service and application flaws, improper configurations, or risky end-user behavior. Such assessments are also useful in validating the efficacy of defensive mechanisms, as well as, end-user adherence to security policies.

Why is Penetration Testing so important?

Security breaches and service interruptions are costly

Security breaches and any related interruptions in the performance of services or applications, can result in direct financial losses, threaten organizations’ reputations, erode customer loyalties, attract negative press, and trigger significant fines and penalties.

It is impossible to safeguard all information, all the time

Organizations have traditionally sought to prevent breaches by installing and maintaining layers of defensive security mechanisms, including user access controls, cryptography, IPS, IDS, and firewalls.

Penetration testing identifies and prioritizes security risks

Penetration testing evaluates an organization’s ability to protect its networks, applications, endpoints and users from external or internal attempts to circumvent its security controls to gain unauthorized or privileged access to protected assets.

Penetration testing

 When it comes to penetration testing, look no further than Rapid7's Metasploit Framework. With an extensive library of exploits, security professionals can use the exploit development and delivery system to assess the security of an application or network before attackers do.

 The platform's versatility comes from its modular structure: Plug in the appropriate module and test computers, phones, routers, switches, industrial control systems, and embedded devices. Metasploit can run on a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, and iOS.

 The platform's versatility comes from its modular structure: Plug in the appropriate module and test computers, phones, routers, switches, industrial control systems, and embedded devices. Metasploit can run on a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, and iOS.

 Mimikatz is a great post exploitation tool that lets penetration testers gain a firmer foothold on the Windows machine or network. Mimikatz is powerful, as it lets testers extract plain-text passwords, hashes, PIN codes, and Kerberos tickets from memory, impersonate user tokens, and export certificates and corresponding private keys stored on the compromised system. Mimikatz can be used as a stand-alone tool, but it is also included in Metasploit as a meterpreter script.