
Vulnerability Assessment & Pentesting
What is VAPT
VAPT stands for Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing. It is a process used to identify and assess the security vulnerabilities in a computer system, network, or application.
In simpler terms, VAPT helps to find weaknesses or flaws in your digital infrastructure that could be exploited by hackers or malicious actors. It involves two main components:
1. Vulnerability Assessment: This is the first step in the process. It involves scanning and analyzing the target system or network to identify potential vulnerabilities. Various tools and techniques are used to scan for known security weaknesses, misconfigurations, or outdated software versions. The goal is to create a comprehensive list of vulnerabilities that need to be addressed.
2. Penetration Testing: Once vulnerabilities are identified, penetration testing is conducted. This involves simulated attacks on the system or network to determine if these vulnerabilities can be exploited. Skilled security professionals attempt to gain unauthorized access, escalate privileges, or perform other malicious activities that a real attacker might try. The purpose is to understand the impact of these vulnerabilities and assess the effectiveness of existing security measures. The results of a VAPT assessment provide valuable insights into the security posture of the target system or network. It helps organizations understand their vulnerabilities and take appropriate measures to mitigate them. By addressing these weaknesses, organizations can enhance their overall security, protect sensitive data, and prevent potential security breaches. VAPT is an important process for both businesses and individuals to ensure the safety and integrity of their digital assets, especially in an increasingly interconnected and vulnerable digital landscape.
Benefits of vapt Identify
Vulnerabilities: VAPT helps you find weaknesses in your systems that hackers could exploit.
Mitigate Security Risks: By addressing vulnerabilities, you reduce the chances of a successful cyber attack.
Enhance Security Measures: VAPT evaluates the effectiveness of your security controls, allowing you to improve them.
Protect Sensitive Data: It helps prevent data breaches by identifying vulnerabilities that could expose confidential information.
Compliance with Regulations: VAPT ensures you meet industry-specific security standards and regulatory requirements.
Minimize Downtime and Financial Loss: By addressing vulnerabilities, you reduce the risk of system crashes or financial losses from cyber attacks.
Improve Incident Response:VAPT tests your incident response procedures, helping you enhance your ability to detect and respond to security incidents.
Gain Stakeholder Trust: Regular VAPT assessments demonstrate your commitment to security, fostering trust with stakeholders.
Stay Ahead of Emerging Threats:VAPT keeps you proactive against evolving cyber threats and newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Continuous Security Improvement: VAPT is an ongoing process to monitor and improve your security over time
Web Application Security Testing
Advanced Web Application Security Testing Service will keep you safe from security risks.
Overview : Web application penetration testing is a proactive security assessment that simulates hacker-style attacks on web applications. Its purpose is to detect and analyze vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers. By identifying weaknesses in code, configuration, or access controls, organizations can mitigate risks and protect sensitive user and financial data. This testing is crucial for maintaining a strong security posture and safeguarding web applications from potential cyber threats.
Methodology Beyond Cloud offers a comprehensive web application penetration testing methodology that goes beyond mere vulnerability identification. Our approach encompasses the detection of both security vulnerabilities and business logic vulnerabilities, while adhering to industry standards such as OWASP Top 10, SANS25, OSSTMM, BSIMM, NIST SP 800-115, PTES, and ISA/IES 15408. We provide on-premises and off-premises application security services, covering online, mobile, and cloud environments. With extensive experience across various threat surfaces, including the cloud, mobile apps, and web-based platforms, our methodology follows a proven roadmap to ensure a meticulous and effective assessment of application security. Trust us to enhance your security posture based on recognized security standards and frameworks
Black-box Testing: In black-box testing, our penetration testers emulate the approach of an average hacker who has no prior knowledge of the target system. This method focuses on identifying vulnerabilities that can be exploited externally, outside the network. The duration of the assessment depends on the expertise of our pentesters in exploiting these external vulnerabilities, making it a quick and efficient testing approach.
Gray-box Testing: Moving a step ahead, gray-box testing provides a more focused and streamlined assessment of network security. Our pentesters operate with the access and knowledge levels of a user, potentially with elevated privileges. This allows us to concentrate our assessment efforts on systems that pose the highest risk and hold the greatest value right from the start, resulting in an efficient and effective evaluation.
White-box Testing: On the other end of the spectrum, white-box testing provides the most comprehensive assessment of a system's security. Our pentesters are given full access to source code, architecture documentation, and other relevant resources. Although this method requires more time due to the extensive analysis of data, it allows us to thoroughly examine the internals of the system and provide a comprehensive evaluation.
Network Penetration Testing
“Find the security holes in your network before an attacker does.”
Overview:Network penetration testing, or network VAPT, is an extensive security assessment that goes beyond vulnerability scanning to identify risks and their impact on your network infrastructure. It covers wireless, internal, and external networks, aiming to uncover vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and potential threats. By simulating real-world attacks and attempting unauthorized access, network penetration testing evaluates the effectiveness of your network security measures and helps protect against cyber threats. It plays a vital role in understanding the security posture of your network, safeguarding critical data, and making informed decisions to enhance network resilience.
Methodology
Types of testing
Black Box Testing: Black Box testing, also referred to as behavioral or external testing, focuses solely on the application's input and output. Testers performing Black Box testing do not have any knowledge of the internal code structure or implementation details. Instead, they rely on the software's specifications and requirements to assess its functionality.
Gray Box Testing: Gray Box testing combines aspects of both black box and white box testing. Testers conducting Gray Box testing have a general understanding of the application's core code. This allows them to search for faults that are specific to the context and may arise from poor code structure. It strikes a balance between external testing and limited visibility into the internal code.
White Box Testing: White Box testing, also known as internal testing, clear box testing, open box testing, or glass box testing, involves examining the software's underlying structure, code, and architecture. Testers performing White Box testing can see and analyze the code, validating the input-output flow. This approach aims to improve the software's design, security, and overall utility by delving into its internal workings.
Cloud Penetration Testing
Better business necessitates better security with Cloud Security Testing.
Overview: Cloud Penetration Testing Cloud penetration testing aims to evaluate the cybersecurity posture of your cloud-based environment by simulating attacks and identifying weaknesses in your cloud security services. Our methodology focuses on prioritizing vulnerable areas of your cloud applications and providing actionable solutions to enhance security. The results of cloud security testing are utilized by organizations to improve their security measures. Prominent examples of cloud platforms include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and others. The concept of shared accountability is essential in cloud penetration testing.
Methodology: Cloud security testing focuses on analyzing attack vectors, breach scenarios, operational issues, and recovery mechanisms within the cloud environment. Our methodology follows industry best practices, combining automated cloud security testing tools and manual techniques to identify security vulnerabilities. This includes detecting configuration flaws, excessive builds, and other potential risks that could impact the security integrity of your cloud platform.
Black Box Testing: In black box cloud penetration testing, the testers assume the role of external attackers without any prior knowledge or access to your cloud systems. This approach enables them to evaluate the system's resilience to external threats and discover vulnerabilities from an outsider's perspective.
Gray Box Testing: Gray box cloud penetration testing involves testers having limited access and knowledge of the cloud systems. This approach allows for a more focused evaluation of specific areas, such as user privileges or system configurations, providing insights into potential vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers with partial knowledge.
White Box Testing: White box cloud penetration testing provides testers with full access to the cloud systems, including administrative or root-level privileges. This enables a thorough examination of the underlying infrastructure, code, and configurations, allowing for a comprehensive assessment of security measures and potential weaknesses.
Mobile Application Security Testing
Your mobile device is the easiest portal to your security threats.
Overview: Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Mobile application penetration testing encompasses evaluating mobile apps for quality, functionality, compatibility, usability, and performance. Designed for touchscreen devices such as smartphones and tablets, mobile apps are integral to the larger mobile ecosystem, which includes servers, data centers, network infrastructure, and mobile devices. VAPT for mobile app security testing is a critical step in assessing app security and minimizing risks related to fraud, malware, data breaches, and other security vulnerabilities.The approaches are –
Black Box Approach:
The black box testing approach, also referred to as behavioral or external testing, is a software testing technique where testers do not have prior knowledge of the internal code structure, implementation details, or internal pathways of an application. Instead, they solely focus on the application's input and output. This approach relies entirely on the software's specifications and requirements to evaluate its functionality and behavior. It simulates how end-users interact with the software without considering its internal workings.Gray Box Testing: Gray box testing is a software testing approach that combines aspects of both black box and white box testing. Testers performing gray box testing have a partial understanding of the application's core code, providing them with insight into its structure and internal workings. This approach enables the identification of context-specific errors that may be a result of the application's poor code structure. By leveraging their limited knowledge, testers can effectively target areas of potential vulnerabilities and assess the application's overall quality and reliability.
Secure Code Review
Acquire visibility into the security of the software with the use of "Secure Code Review."
Overview: Secure Code Review Secure code review is a comprehensive procedure that involves the meticulous analysis of an application's source code, employing manual and automated techniques. The purpose is to identify design flaws, unsafe coding practices, potential backdoors, injection vulnerabilities, cross-site scripting issues, weak cryptography, and more. The ultimate goal of secure code review is to enhance the code's security and identify and rectify any weaknesses before they can be exploited. By conducting a detailed review, the identification of insecure code that may lead to vulnerabilities later in the software development process is possible, ensuring the development of a secure application.
Methodology The secure coding review process is divided into two different techniques -Tools for Secure Code Review:
Automated Tool Secure code review utilizes a range of open source and commercial tools. These tools are commonly used by developers during the development process, but security analysts may also utilize them. When integrated into a secure software development life cycle (SDLC) within an organization, developers can perform "self-code" reviews using these tools during their work, enhancing the overall security of the code. Furthermore, these tools are valuable for analyzing large codebases comprising millions of lines, enabling efficient and thorough code review processes.
Manual tool This method involves performing a full code review on the entire code, which may be a highly time-consuming and difficult task. But throughout this procedure, logical errors such as business logic issues could be found that are impossible to find with automated techniques.
Red Teaming
Red teaming is a cybersecurity service that we offer to organizations. Our red teaming service involves conducting comprehensive assessments of your organization's security defenses by simulating real-world attacks. Our skilled team of security professionals, acting as the "red team,"will employ a variety of advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in your systems, networks, applications, and personnel.
Through a structured and targeted approach, we aim to provide an unbiased evaluation of your organization's security posture. Our red team will emulate the strategies and methodologies used by real attackers to test the effectiveness of your security controls, incident response capabilities, and overall resilience against sophisticated threats.
Our red teaming service goes beyond traditional penetration testing, as it incorporates elements of social engineering, physical security assessments, and in-depth reconnaissance. We provide detailed reports and recommendations based on our findings, highlighting areas that require immediate attention and suggesting practical remediation measures to enhance your security defenses.
By engaging in red teaming, you can gain valuable insights into your organization's security strengths and weaknesses, identify gaps in your defenses, and enhance your overall cybersecurity posture. It allows you to proactively identify and address potential security risks, improve incident response capabilities, and effectively prepare for real-world cyber threats.
Our red teaming service is tailored to meet the unique needs and requirements of your organization, ensuring a thorough assessment that aligns with industry best practices and regulatory compliance standards.
⦁ Scope Definition: Clearly define the scope of the red teaming exercise, including the systems, networks, applications, and personnel to be targeted.
⦁ Reconnaissance: Conduct thorough reconnaissance to gather information about the target organization, such as publicly available data, network infrastructure, employees, and social media presence.
⦁ Threat Modeling: Develop a comprehensive threat model by identifying potential attack vectors, potential adversaries, and their motivations. This helps in planning the simulated attacks.
⦁ Attack Planning: Create a detailed attack plan, outlining the specific techniques and methodologies to be employed during the red teaming exercise. This includes selecting appropriate tools, tactics, and procedures.
⦁ Execution: Perform the simulated attacks, emulating real-world adversaries while employing various hacking techniques, social engineering, and other methods to gain unauthorized access or exploit vulnerabilities.
⦁ Exploitation and Persistence: Attempt to exploit identified vulnerabilities to gain deeper access and establish persistence within the target systems. This may involve escalating privileges, pivoting between systems, or bypassing security controls.
⦁ Information Gathering: Collect and analyze information obtained during the attack to identify further vulnerabilities, sensitive data exposure, or potential areas for compromise.
⦁ Reporting: Document the findings, including successful attack vectors, compromised systems, and vulnerabilities discovered. Provide a detailed report outlining the overall security posture, areas of weakness, and recommendations for mitigation.
⦁ Debriefing: Conduct a debriefing session with key stakeholders, discussing the outcomes of the red teaming exercise, lessons learned, and actionable recommendations for improving security defenses.
⦁ Remediation: Work collaboratively with the organization's security team to address the identified vulnerabilities, implement security enhancements, and improve incident response processes based on the red team's findings.