What level of confidence do you have in your protective measures against current and future cyberattacks?

Cyber defense effectiveness can only be gauged by independent penetration testing. CYBANATICS experts have unique insights into how cyber attackers approach digital assets by deploying tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) they typically employ to access them.

To identify security gaps in your organization, we simulate hacker’s mentality using real-world hacker techniques. Internet perimeters, internal and external networks, websites, databases, and even employees are common targets.

We draw insights from two specialized sources, both powerful: our team of cyber investigators’ first-hand experience and the threat intelligence collected from high-tech resources.

We offer countermeasures to mitigate your risk following our penetration testing and deliver solid evidence of our findings.

APPROACH

• Project initiation. Obtain authorization to perform the test, develop test goals, objectives, prioritize high-value assets
• Collection of information and intelligence. To identify potential attack vectors, we use reconnaissance techniques to collate and analyze publicly available information about your company and employees. We examined public websites, social media, domain registries, and dark web data as part of our comprehensive review
• Exercise on threat modeling. Analyze reconnaissance information, identify potential attack vectors, and create attack plans which are tested
• Execution of an attack. By employing methods used by real-world adversaries, we attempt to gain access to your organization’s environment. Your IT infrastructure, websites, applications, and employees will be targeted

REPORTING

• Final report provides summary of the test performed, detailed description of any weaknesses discovered, analysis, evidences and remediation guidance.
• Management presentation – executive summary, findings and recommendations.

Performing a code review can improve your chances of finding bugs that would otherwise be difficult to find during black box or grey box testing. With the help of a comprehensive checklist of common architectural errors and implementation errors, our developers and security architects provide a fast and effective code review. The experts at CYBANATICS will therefore be able to assess your code quickly and provide a report containing all the vulnerabilities found.

In addition to identifying which statement and line of code is vulnerable, source code analysis also identifies the tainted variable that introduces the vulnerability. The propagation of root causes to their corresponding outcomes can be seen in this way. By having an end-to-end overview of each vulnerability, application developers can quickly grasp the nature of the issue.

How does Code Review work?

We follow the following Code review methodology:

• Ensure that your software documentation, coding standards, and guidelines are up to date
• Discuss the application with your development team
• Identifying security issues in the design process by asking comprehensive security questions to your developers
• Look for areas in the application code that deal with authentication, session management, and data validation
• An assessment of the data vulnerabilities that may exist in your code
• Detection of coding errors exploitable for the launch of targeted attacks
• A security assessment of each framework technology

WEB APPLICATION TESTING

Any website / web application developed specifically for the organization or that uses sensitive information needs to undergo this type of testing. Due to the substantial amount of effort required, most engagements require a custom quote / scoping.

In general, a minimum number of days will be recommended for any web application, depending on its size, scope, complexity, and sensitivity.

Authenticated or unauthenticated testing can be conducted, and testing can be conducted by users with various privileges (end users, managers, administrators, etc.).

MOBILE APPLICATION TESTING

The process of testing mobile applications involves reviewing them on a mobile device. Tester examines the mobile application using automated and manual testing tools for insecure configuration settings and data storage. Additionally, we perform network traffic analysis through an intermediary system by masquerading as a normal user and proxying network traffic through the application to detect insecure data transmission.

When reviewing a mobile application, it is necessary to test the HTTP requests made by the application using the Web Application Testing Methodology outlined above.

Our mobile application testing methodology identifies the top mobile application risks to help you build a secure mobile application.

Traditional vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT) having the disadvantage of limited timelines and scope. It can never be used to simulate a real-world threat actor. Traditional VAPT can only provide a glimpse of the present state of security for the assets that are part of the scope. Red Teams target weaknesses in your security with the intention of breaking them and to determine the organization can withstand attacks by malicious threat actors.

WHAT WE DO AS PART OF RED TEAMING ASSESSMENT

We aim to provide our clients with:

• A real-world perspective of threat actors
• Holistic view of security controls
• Evaluate security incident response capabilities

Our attack vectors are designed to simulate threats from three primary attack sources.

Technology asset: Includes network devices, systems, applications, mobile application, and others.

Individuals/Social Engineering: Includes employees, contractors, partner and suppliers.

Physical: Main offices including branch locations, data centre, mail room.

METHODOLOGY

Red Team Assessment requires a very strong reconnaissance. This is the stage we gather the information of the target organization. This includes information related to your:

• Internet facing assets (Public IP addresses, web sites, applications, mobile apps etc.)
• User and internal application details
• Physical site details

With information gathered about the target, we then proceed to exploiting this information using various methods – phishing emails, exploiting vulnerabilities, visiting physical locations to try and breach physical security, etc. to enter network, and then move laterality to gain access to many other systems.  The assessment leverages non-destructive attack vectors to gain the level of access required.

BENEFITS OF RED TEAM ASSESSMENT

• Get a better understanding of how cyber attackers gain access to your environment, network and sensitive data
• Validate organisation’s security posture – control effectiveness including awareness
• Contextualise business process improvements by delivering more intelligence on about the risks, their impact and remediation options
• Helps estimate response time if an actual attack take place and improve