Service Overview
Penetration Testing should be a key component in protecting any organisation's financial and information assets. As the core of all business transactions, information assets must be effectively safeguarded from unauthorised access and abuse and with an ever increasing number of hackers on the Internet today, regular External Penetration and Internal Vulnerability testing will reveal your security weaknesses and enable you to take the necessary actions to address them.
The SunGard Penetration Testing service has been developed to identify areas of vulnerability within a client’s infrastructure. By using the up-to-date techniques, technologies and information sources used by genuine hackers our service provides an assessment of the risks associated with an organisation’s internet facing infrastructure, and systems behind the firewall.
The Benefits
The Penetration Testing service gives you:
- The experience and knowledge of security experts;
- An attackers view of your infrastructure
- Potential access points through internet facing hosts
- Effectiveness of proxy and firewall rule sets
- Server patching vulnerabilities
- Server account and authentication weaknesses
What does it involve?
- The consultant will contact you for details of IP addresses to be scanned and arrange remote access
- Use of scanning tools to locate live hosts and associated services within target IP range
- Assessment of services to identify potential vulnerabilities
- Investigation of current internet profile using non-invasive techniques
- Report of vulnerabilities and weaknesses is compiled