Business-led Penetration Testing

In addition to the more traditional/compliance-based penetration tests, URM offers specialised business-led penetration testing services, which provide you with complete agency over the scope and aims of your pen test.

What is Business-Led Penetration Testing?

Whilst penetration testing is often performed largely for compliance purposes, i.e. it is performed because it is a compliance requirement for a specific policy, regulation or standard (such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard or ‘PCI DSS’), URM’s specialised business-led penetration testing is conducted to investigate and address the specific issues and risks faced by your organisation.  

The scope of a business-led penetration test is highly flexible and provides you with ultimate control over what is included.  If there are certain compliance requirements you need to meet, URM’s business-led penetration testing can performed as an expansion of a compliance-based test by extending the test’s scope in response to your concerns.  

Benefits of Business-Led Pen Testing

Flexible scope

The highly flexible scope of the test can be used to address any concerns your organisation has about its cyber security posture, allowing it to capture vulnerabilities and opportunities for improvement that may otherwise have been missed

Increased scalability

As well as being flexible, a business-led penetration test scope is infinitely scalable, enabling testers to look for specific vulnerabilities on a scale that may not usually be possible due to time constraints

Enhanced buy-in

The increased relevance of a business-led penetration test is likely to inspire greater buy-in and engagement from your organisation, and therefore greater investment into the improvements it recommends.

Our Business-Led Penetration Testing Process

All of URM’s business-led penetration testing is conducted in line with industry recognised, best-practice methodologies.

Scope

A key aspect of business-led penetration testing, URM’s tester will discuss the security issues, concerns and questions you would like to investigate and work closely with you to define an effective and appropriate testing scope.  

Reconnaissance and information gathering

Simulating the approach of a malicious actor, URM’s penetration testing experts use cutting-edge intelligence gathering techniques to amass information about your environment.  

Vulnerability identification and analysis  

Our penetration tester will use the information amassed in the previous stage to identify the vulnerabilities within your environment that can be exploited, and develop a strategy for doing so.

Exploitation  

Having established which vulnerabilities are present within your organsation’s environment, the tester will attempt to exploit these and test the effectiveness of your defences.  

Reporting and debrief  

Having completed the test, URM’s pen tester will document their findings in a report and provide a debrief meeting at the end of the assessment, in which they will offer advice and guidance on the remediation process.  

Retest

If any critical or high-risk vulnerabilities have been identified during the test, we will provide a free retest of these in the first 30 days after the assessment to ensure the highest risks are mitigated as quickly as possible.

Why Choose URM Consulting for Business-Led Pen Testing?

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When conducting business-led tests, URM integrates advanced technology-based methodologies to align with your specific objectives.  By doing so, we provide you with assurance and invaluable insights into your real-world security posture.  Our approach isn't just about generic assessments; it's about addressing the precise security challenges and risks that matter most to your organisation.  Our holistic approach, through which we draw upon our extensive background in governance, risk and compliance, means we can also provide a whole plethora of policy, process and training solutions to address your security weaknesses.