Penetration testing, also known as a pentest, continues to evolve as many firms tend to combine other information security tasks as a part of the penetration test deliverables.  When this happens, the emphasis on providing a comprehensive penetration test tends to be reduced, and promotes a greater infiltration risk. At Praetorian Secure, the goal of a solid penetration test program centers around active assessment of the information environment, and providing real tangible results to consider for remediation.  Praetorian Secure assesses your employee's level of security awareness, and works to penetrate your workforce using a variety of technical tools and social engineering procedures such as:

• Gain information through personal contact, phone calls and email phishing

• Fake specific credible identities of your staff, customers and related service organizations 

• Identify vulnerabilities for hackers, extortionists and/or disgruntled employees

• Infiltrate websites, internal applications, external perimeter access (VPN, EDI), wireless connections, physical connections and use of latest industry compliance recommendations - PCI, ISACA, ISSA, OSSTMM, OWASP

There is no one fool proof method or procedure to execute the best penetration test, and relying only on test software provided by hardware suppliers is a sure way for a network to be compromised.  At Praetorian Secure, our test engineers use industry wide best management practices and the latest tools to combat the ever changing world of hackers. Praetorian Secure will provide detailed results to be reviewed by the appropriate staff, at which point recommendations and discussions on how to raise employee awareness and increase the internal security level will be introduced.