External Penetration Testing
Stay safe from online threats.
The Internet’s Dark Side: Cyber Attacks
Attacks From the Internet
Every online service you use is connected to the Internet, making penetration testing essential to address potential vulnerabilities.
Frequent Cyber Attacks
Constantly Evolving Threats
Stay Secure by Uncovering Hidden Risk
External penetration testing protects your systems by simulating real-world cyber attacks, uncovering hidden vulnerabilities before hackers can exploit them, and empowering you to proactively strengthen your defenses against ever-evolving online threats. Raxis external pentests are available in both the continuous Raxis Attack model as well as the traditional point-in-time Raxis Strike model to meet each organization’s needs.
Realistic Threat Assessment
Attack simulation in external penetration testing provides a realistic assessment of an organization’s security defenses by mimicking real-world attack scenarios. This helps our customers understand how external threat actors could potentially breach their systems.
Enhanced Incident Response
Simulations help organizations develop and refine their incident response capabilities. By practicing responses to simulated attacks, security teams become better equipped to handle real-world cyber threats, minimizing potential damage and recovery time.
Compliance and Due Diligence
Regular attack simulations can help organizations meet regulatory requirements and demonstrate their commitment to cybersecurity, which is important for building trust with stakeholders and customers.
Improved Detection Capabilities
Through hands-on experience with simulated attacks, security teams can develop the skills needed to detect and respond to actual cyber threats more effectively. This reduces the risk of successful breaches and enhances overall security posture.
Continuous Security Assessment
Unlike traditional penetration testing, Raxis Attack can provide ongoing, automated assessments of an organization’s security posture. This allows for real-time understanding of vulnerabilities against both known and emerging threats.
Proactive Vulnerability Identification
By simulating real-world cyber attacks, organizations can uncover weaknesses in their security controls before malicious actors exploit them. This proactive approach allows companies to address vulnerabilities and strengthen their defenses preemptively.
Detailed Reporting and Remediation
Raxis provides a comprehensive overview of identified vulnerabilities, their potential impact, and actionable recommendations for remediation. This documentation not only helps organizations prioritize and address critical security flaws but also serves as essential evidence for compliance with industry regulations and standards, ultimately strengthening the overall cybersecurity posture.
Employee Education
Attack simulations provide ongoing output that creates valuable training opportunities for employees, helping them recognize and respond to various cyber threats, including hardware misconfigurations and software bugs. This is crucial as human error accounts for over 88% of all data breaches.
The “Pentest” They Do Isn’t Very Effective
There’s no “easy” button in penetration testing. We suggest that you take a close look at their offering. Find out who will be doing your tests, how successful they have been in the past, and review their sample reports. Time and time again, we’ve seen subpar results with these providers, and many customers come to us to finish the job that they couldn’t deliver.
A Few Cases We’ve Seen Before
Telnet and FTP services that require no credentials and allow malicious file uploads.
Exposed administrative pages, often requiring only easily discovered default credentials, that allowed Raxis to view and edit high level device settings — and even sensitive customer and system data.
Looting the Shop
Raxis Hack Stories
All stories are based on real events encountered by Raxis engineers; however, some details have been altered to protect our customers’ identities.
Want to hear a secret? Pentesters would rather take on an internal network test than an external network test. Why? Because genuine pentesters enjoy keeping their skills up and putting in the work to chain complex attacks. There are many robust options organizations can employ to keep external networks secure, so external network penetration tests often result in our team banging on every door only to find access closed. In this day and age with so many high stakes threats, that is the result organizations hope for: an external penetration test that reveals their controls are working properly and keeping the bad guys out.
A team of our penetration testers found a different story, though, when testing a large organization. With a large internet-facing network to test, our team started by mapping out the systems and services available. They quickly became surprised that a large number of systems had several open ports, each of which could house systems with vulnerabilities.
Discovering an obsolete operating system with unpatched software installed, our team successfully created a reverse shell to gain internal access to the system. From there they escalated privileges and gathered credentials from systems across the network. Pivoting to a domain controller, our team gained access to the full list of password hashes for the domain, cracking well over 50% of the discovered hashes. By the end of the engagement our team went from external access to domain admin access, but the real winner was our customer, who used the information in their Raxis report to gain emergency budget increases to upgrade their software and remediate critical vulnerabilities.
Learn More About External Penetration Testing
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