What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing, or pen testing as it is often referred to, involves an authorised individual adopting the role of a hacker and attempting to compromise or gain access to a network or an application. The objective is to evaluate and assess an organisation’s security posture and identify, analyse and exploit any vulnerabilities or misconfigurations that present a security risk.
A penetration test is able to evaluate the impact that a vulnerability or a set of vulnerabilities might have on the organisation and to highlight how even non-critical issues can be chained together to cause greater impact. By identifying any risks, they can be treated before they are targeted by malicious hackers.
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Having been involved in over 450 successful ISO 27001 certifications, URM Consulting Services (URM) is ideally placed to advise you on the essential activities and tasks you will need to carry out in order to maintain and improve your ISO 27001 auditing function and programme.
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Does your mobile application need to be pen tested?
URM can conduct penetration tests on mobile apps that are deployed to either Apple IOS or Android devices, typically against the OWASP MASVS, but also under the CREST OVS framework where required.
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Do you need support in meeting your annual PCI DSS penetration testing requirements? CREST-accredited URM can complete internal and external penetration tests for your organisation.
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Do you need support in meeting your annual PCI DSS penetration testing requirements?
As a CREST-accredited penetration testing organisation, URM can complete internal and external penetration tests.
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It’s one thing having the required technical knowledge, it’s another thing for a consultant to apply that knowledge to the context of our organisation. To use a sporting analogy, we view cyber and information security as a marathon not a sprint. I am not a believer in doing everything all at once. Our approach has been risk based and incremental, remediating our biggest risks first before moving on. I believe this approach is far more sustainable and effective. And URM’s consultants fully understand this and are very pragmatic and tailored in their guidance and advice. They know we are not implementing ISO 27001 purely for the certificate, but more as a framework for continual improvement, and at a pace where new systems and processes can be fully understood and absorbed by our team and be business as usual.
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