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Penetration Testing

What is Penetration Testing – Ethical Hacking?

In its simplest form, penetration testing is an assessment of your business from the perspective of a hacker, carried out in a safe and controlled manner by qualified security consultants. The results of the assessment are then delivered to you in a formal report, allowing for the remediation and mitigation of any threats to your business.

Our team of security cleared, expert penetration testers, all carry NCSC recognised qualifications. Specialising in various ethical hacking services, they are dedicated to improving your overall security posture.

At ICS, you can confidently receive high-quality, business-focused cybersecurity consultancy and penetration testing. Moreover, all findings are thoroughly validated to ensure accuracy and reliability.

We offer a variety of Penetration Testing Services

Infrastructure

Infrastructure assessments evaluate the security of an organisation’s IT environment, including servers, networks, and devices. They identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and potential threats, ensuring a secure foundation. These assessments help protect against unauthorised access, data breaches, and service disruptions.

Web Applications

Web application assessments test the security of web sites by identifying vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting and insecure authentication. These assessments help protect against unauthorised access, data leaks and other cyber threats, ensuring the application’s resilience to attacks.

Cloud Security

A cloud security review assesses the security measures protecting data and applications in cloud environments. It evaluates access controls, encryption, compliance and vulnerability management to identify risks. This ensures that cloud configurations are secure, mitigating threats such as data breaches and unauthorised access.

Wireless

Wireless assessments evaluate the security of Wi-Fi networks, identifying vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit. These assessments include testing encryption, network segmentation and access controls, ensuring only authorised users can connect. They help prevent unauthorised access, data breaches and signal interception.

Social Engineering

Social engineering is the manipulation of individuals to obtain confidential information or access through deception. Attackers exploit trust, tricking people into divulging sensitive data or performing actions, often bypassing technical defences. Common tactics include phishing, pretexting and impersonation.

Red Teaming

Red Team assessments simulate real-world attacks to test an organisation’s defences. By mimicking advanced adversaries, they identify vulnerabilities and assess detection and response capabilities, helping improve overall security resilience against potential threats. Red Teams operate covertly to replicate authentic cyber-attack scenarios.

Physical Assessments

Physical security assessments evaluate an organisation’s protections against unauthorised physical access, theft or damage. They carefully examine barriers, surveillance, access controls, and response protocols to ensure that assets and personnel are effectively safeguarded. Additionally, this thorough assessment helps maintain a secure environment. These assessments help identify weaknesses and improve defences against physical threats.

Penetration Testing Workflow

ICS employs best practices from the most common penetration testing methodologies, such as OWASP and NIST. These practices are then seamlessly integrated into our eight-step penetration testing workflow.

Benefits of Penetration Testing

Identify Vulnerabilities and Remediation Support:  ICS’s penetration testing experts help businesses to identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in their systems, networks, applications and people. Through simulated real-world attacks, we pinpoint potential gaps in and entry points for threat actors. Realistic and pragmatic remediation and mitigation advice is subsequently provided as part of our formal report.

Compliance Verification: In industries where compliance is crucial, passing a regulatory penetration test helps your business progress by ensuring a secure environment, building trust with stakeholders and gaining a competitive advantage. Our testing not only meets regulatory requirements but also enhances your organisation’s overall resilience and success. Furthermore, it contributes to a stronger foundation for future growth and stability.

Saving you Money and Strengthening your Security: Proactive security testing through penetration testing not only prevents breaches but also mitigates potential costs incurred by compromise, outage, or regulatory fines. Moreover, robust security assessments positively impact supply chain commitments by preventing contractual breaches and reducing hidden costs associated with Service Level Agreements (SLA’s). As a result, organizations ensure regulatory adherence and simultaneously strengthen overall business resilience.

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What our clients say

We partnered with Incursion Cyber Security on a recent onsite ITHC project. Lewis and Gareth were professional and communicative throughout the project – from set up calls with the client to providing updates to our PMO whilst onsite during the engagement.  

We received excellent feedback from our client about the quality of testing conducted and internally we were happy with how smoothly the project ran.  

I would highly recommend ICS for their personable and collaborative style of working whilst delivering high-risk Cyber Security projects to an excellent standard.  

Kezia – Prism Infosec

I am delighted to share our experience with ICS, a company that truly exemplifies excellence in security incident response. Their unwavering commitment to professionalism and sensitivity during a critical situation turned a crisis in to an opportunity for growth and a renewed commitment to security.

When faced with a security breach, emotions run high. ICS demonstrated remarkable empathy and understanding. They treated the team members not as mere clients but as individuals navigating a distressing event. Their compassionate approach eased our clients’ anxieties and fostered trust.

They provided concise, jargon-free updates, ensuring that stakeholders and affected parties were well-informed. Their transparency built confidence in their abilities.

In summary, ICS isn’t just a security consultancy; they are guardians of trust, protectors of digital sanctity. If you seek a team that combines technical knowhow with genuine care, look no further. I wholeheartedly endorse ICS for their exceptional service.

Barry – MSA365

Incursion are professional with their approach whether this be within the internal team or external stakeholders.

They are responsive which makes the engagement flow really well throughout the project, communication is great; attending daily stand up call, responding to WhatsApp messages quickly as well as reaching out to the wider team if needed. The level of work produced is to a high standard and follows industry best practices, Incursion make sure they thoroughly cover everything on the agreed scope.

This has led to us receiving further work from the customer and an extension in our engagement. Incursion have no issues with working collaboratively within a team which has really helped with working in an agile environment.

Overall, Incursion are a pleasure to work with.

Chloe – Leonardo

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