External Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Identifying security vulnerabilities within your critical external networks.

What is External Infrastructure Penetration Testing?

An external infrastructure penetration test will assess your externally facing networks to identify any security vulnerabilities and weaknesses.

As these networks are publicly exposed to the internet, malicious attackers from around the world are able to target and potentially compromise these systems – with unlimited time restraints.

External infrastructure penetration testing

How Can Your Business Benefit From External Infrastructure Penetration Testing?

Externally facing networks and environments are often used by organisations to allow employees to connect to internal resources. Examples of these could be: VPN servers, remote desktop gateways or various cloud services and gateways. As these environments often allow access into internal and critical systems, it is imperative that they are appropriately secured.

Attackers have an almost unlimited time period to attack these services, which could ultimately lead to both reputational and financial damage if successful.

Our CREST approved external network penetration testing service can provide you with insight into security vulnerabilities within your externally facing assets. We can:

  • Identify security vulnerabilities relating to insecure configurations.
  •  Identify flaws within critical services and network devices.
  •  Highlight areas where security best practice is not being followed.
  • Provide assurance that an expert team has reviewed the external infrastructure for security vulnerabilities and advised accordingly.

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With a few details about your web application and/or APIs, our team can quickly get back to you with a quote. Alternatively, you can email us if you prefer: info@ruptura-infosec.com.

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We are experts in Penetration Testing and Cyber Essentials services. Our testing team hold some of the highest level certifications available including: 

CREST CCT, CREST CRT, OSCP, OSCE, OSWE and OSEP.

Commonly Asked Questions About Internal Infrastructure Penetration Testing...

What is External Infrastructure Penetration Testing?
An external infrastructure penetration test will assess your publicly facing systems to identify security vulnerabilities and weaknesses. It is aimed at assessing your external environments from the position of a dedicated attacker over the internet.
Is An External Infrastructure Penetration Test Sufficient?

Testing your publicly facing assets is a good start, but we always recommend combining this with a more thorough assessment, such as an internal infrastructure penetration test.

Why Do I Need an External Infrastructure Penetration Test?
Attackers all across the world have access to your external services with an almost unlimited timeframe. Ensuring these have been adequately assessed by a certified and experience professional organisation such as ourselves provides security assurance to all key stakeholders.
Who Performs Infrastructure Penetration Testing Services?
Our infrastructure penetration testing is performed by a team of highly certified testers that have the necessary skills needed to find vulnerabilities in a controlled and approved manner. We have a team purely dedicated to assessing both internal and external infrastructure.
Will You Help Fix Identified Vulnerabilities?

If this is previously agreed, Ruptura InfoSecurity will assist in all remediation activities to assist in fixing identified security vulnerabilities. This will take place alongside existing security engineering and architecture teams.

Our External Infrastructure Penetration Testing Lifecycle

Externally facing networks and environments are often used by organisations to allow employees to connect to internal resources. Examples of these could be: VPN servers, remote desktop gateways and various cloud services. As these environments often allow access into internal and critical systems, it is imperative that they are appropriately secured.

External infrastructure is often added as an additional phase to almost all of our other penetration testing services, but it is also offered as a standalone service.

Your organisation can rest assured that from start to finish, the process is as simple as can be – whilst still receiving an exceptional penetration testing service.
Scoping

Ruptura InfoSecurity will learn about the key features of your target environments through a scoping call or technical demo. Questions will be asked between all involved parties.

Approval

A proposal will be issued detailing the items in scope, terms and conditions, cost and duration of the project. Once this contract is mutually signed, the project will be scheduled and will shortly commence.

Discovery

Your dedicated penetration tester will begin enumerating the external network to identify potential attack paths and security vulnerabilities.

Assessment
The penetration tester will perform the penetration test and will identify and safely exploit any identified security vulnerabilities. Safe proof-of-concepts will be demonstrated.
Remediation

Where previously agreed, Ruptura InfoSecurity will assist your organisation in fully mitigating any identified risks. This will include working with existing development teams.

Debrief

A high level de-brief session will take place between Ruptura InfoSecurity and your key stakeholders. This will be tailored for both executive and technical members of staff.

Keeping Your Stakeholders Happy.

  • Security Auditors

    Almost all businesses have at least a single public IP address. As an absolute minimum, an information security auditor would expect this to be included within a penetration testing scope for various compliance requirements.

  • CISO / CTO / Heads of IT / IT Security Managers

    Securing an organisations external perimeter should be one of the first steps a senior security stakeholder should be making. A fully accredited external infrastructure penetration test provides this level of assurance.

  • Engineering Teams

    Network engineering and architect teams will have a clear set of defined remediatory actions that can be applied and learned from in future deployments. These can be as simple as stricter firewall rules and simple certificate changes.

Your Trusted Cyber Security Provider.

We are a UK-based cyber security provider with a global reach, including a dedicated company based in Dubai. Our services are provided entirely in-house and are fully accredited by industry standard qualifications and standards. We work with some of the largest global organisations to single person organisations, with them all receiving the same high level of service.