Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing

A Vulnerability Assessment systematically reviews your organisation’s IT infrastructure. It identifies weaknesses in your online networks and systems, determines the severity of these vulnerabilities and offers a list of solutions to help mitigate these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Assessments can include network-based scans, host-based scans, wireless scans and database scans. 

Penetration testing, also known as pen test or ethical testing, simulates a cyber attack against your computer systems to ascertain its defenses against actual malicious attacks. White hat penetration testers use tools and strategies to try to manipulate and gain access to internal and external networks, websites and applications. 

If organisations do not have security policies and systems in place, or an incident reponse team on hand, to deal with an attack  – systems can be easily breached and lead to  data compromised or major financial impacts.