Penetration testing emulates attacks following established protocols, mirroring real-world threats encountered by organisations on a regular basis.
Its aim is to uncover vulnerabilities, flaws, and misconfigurations in the existing security infrastructure, potentially exploited by malicious entities to breach an organization’s systems.
It focuses on pinpointing security gaps that may jeopardize the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of crucial business data.
There are many “Cyber” buzz words flying around, and quite often, only after talking to our clients, discover that our fully managed Cyber Essentials assessment with Active Protect vulnerability monitoring is a better option than a Penetration Test.
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Evidencable vulnerability reporting for both External IP addresses (External Attack Surface) and Endpoint / Devices. Being able to get both an internal and external vulnerability assessments of your estate is a large portion of a standard corporate penetration test.
The RoboShadow platform effectively allows us to provide regular vulnerability assessment reports.
Passing an internal penetration test requires you to demonstrate complete anti malware coverage and enablement. Often now our environments are often a combination of Windows Defender and cocktail of other 3rd Party Antivirus protection.
Windows Defender is now largely replacing 3rd party Antivirus and has a whole host of other goodies like (Firewall & Anti ransomware). RoboShadow allows you to both manager Windows Defender and 3rd party Antivirus coverage.
To pass an internal penetration test you need to be able to demonstrate “Reconciliation with a Primary User Store”, the RoboShadow Cyber Coverage & Reconciliation allows an organisation to demonstrate they are tracking cyber metrics across all their devices. This much-loved capability also allows you to track down feral machines across your estate.
One of the most common cyber incidents you will manage is a “lost device” with company data, encryption saves both reputation and stress when dealing with lost devices.
If you can’t prove the device was encrypted and if contains any client data (including emails in offline OST databases) then technically you need to report this as a Data Breach with the ICO, and severely damaging your business reputation.
You can have all the cybersecurity defence in the world, but your estate can, at the drop of a hat, be subject to a Microsoft security issue which needs a patch / update.
Reporting on your Windows compliance, even now in this modern age can still be a challenge. RoboShadow centralises the reporting of Windows Update compliance, all reconciled against Active Directory to ensure your coverage.
We all seem to be adapting to a “multi-Factor” authentication existence quite well. However, we still find that the majority of clients who enable our MFA audit capabilities are surprised with just how much non-conformance there is within MFA usage.
Phishing attacks are designed to trick the user into giving away personal information or financial records, and are one of the most common form of attack we all need to guard against.
To meet our aim to “Demystify Cyber Security” part of this was going to be in the form of real-world certified support. Not just on all things Cyber, the RoboShadow team are an extended instructure, cloud and network security team and provide our users with one-2-one assistance with cyber strategies, issues, and hardening advice.
Providing all key stakeholders with access to a daily Cyber posture data report, allows internal reporting and management and external information requests from clients and other interested parties to be fully informed.
Our platform allows for a whole host of ways to dashboard, report, and provide data insights. All supported by our Cyber Governance support team.
Research has shown that the risk of a cyber attack and/or data breach is significantly reduced with a well trained workforce. Invest in your team with regular bite-sized study modules and simulated Phishing email campaigns. Learning is fun and will build a cyber aware culture in your organisation and build team
