Demand for Penetration Testing services from the expert team at PureCyber, Cardiff is at an all-time high with organisations understanding and prioritising the security of internal and external infrastructure within their businesses.

Working with companies of all sizes and sectors, across Wales, the UK and globally, PureCyber’s Penetration Testing team have more than doubled in size in the last year with recruitment for senior penetration testers continuing.

Passionate about high quality, extensive, expert penetration testing using real world tools and processes the team seek to identify gaps in your system, bugs, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities before they become a risk and are exploited by cyber criminals.

Combined with additional layers of cyber security, PureCyber advise that Penetration Testing or ‘Pen Testing’ for short should systematically be part of every business’s security strategy.

Tomas Evans, Head of Penetration Testing says

“Penetration testing is a way to test and gain assurance in the security of an IT system by manually using the same techniques a cyber-criminal might use to attempt to gain unauthorised access, maliciously manipulate data sources or make services unavailable. This could be a website, network, application, or your complete computer environment.”

“It is important to differentiate Penetration Testing from Vulnerability Scanning which uses an automated scanning system to check for vulnerabilities. A manual penetration test, by an external and certified organisation goes further than an automated scan. A thorough penetration test, or ethical hack, acts as an attacker would, testing that your company systems and processes are sufficient, highlighting and categorising any necessary remediations to improve security.

As a CREST certified penetration testing organisation, PureCyber and its Penetration testing team who are all based at their Cardiff Headquarters, are certified Offensive Security Certified Professionals (OSCP), Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Testers (OSEP), Offensive Security Wireless Professionals (OSWP) and Certified Information Security Systems Professionals (CISSP).This provides a third-party accredited team who follow stringent continuous professional development programmes.

The Penetration Testing process begins with scoping calls with clients and preparation of the scoping documentation, once the penetration testing is complete PureCyber provide clients with an extensive report that includes a step-by-step breakdown outlining how each vulnerability was identified and exploited along with the remediation advice. Risks are categorised with a clear roadmap for the organisation of the improvements required. This report also includes a breakdown of the main issues within an executive summary that removes the technical jargon and provides a clear depiction of the risk the company faces.

A penetration test allows clients to identify vulnerabilities, real-world risks, test cyber-defences before data is exposed, business continuity is affected and business reputation damaged. In simplest terms, your website, portal, firewall or app might seem secure but are you sure there aren’t any holes in your security just waiting to be uncovered by cyber criminals?

You can find out more in-depth information about Penetration Testing and the benefits and our Penetration Testing Services here or you can get in touch at info@purecyber.com if you would like to discuss further.