Cyber Security Testing

Red Team Testing

Our objective-based, real-world attack simulations against people, software, hardware and physical facilities can emulate cybercriminals' known tactics, techniques and procedures, providing organisations with a holistic view of their security posture.

Challenges

There are many attack vectors that can be used to gain access to information, in some cases, business’ may not know that they have vulnerabilities. Sometimes the only way to find vulnerabilities is to simulate a Red Team Test. Our service can ensure the customer knows their potential security weaknesses, so they can be prepared for an actual cyberattack.

Service Capabilities

Red Team Testing evaluates an organisation’s security awareness, physical security posture, technical internal and external security controls, endpoint and internal detection capability, telemetry efficacy and incident response rate.
Initially, there will be an engagement scoping exercise, where specialist consultants will work with the customer to determine the extent of the red team test.
Reconnaissance is then performed, gathering as much information on the targeted organisation as possible.
At this point, Red Team Testing is carried out.
These tests can be extensive or condensed, depending on the threat profile and objectives of the customer.

After the testing period, recommendations are offered to remediate all vulnerabilities found during the test.
Additionally, an intensive report is provided, highlighting all the detailed findings and concluding the Red Team Testing.
Each stage of the Red Team Test can be tailored to the customer’s requirements.
Tactics, techniques and procedures are mapped against the Mitre ATT&CK framework and follow the cyber kill chain.
This certification ensures that a business is ensuring that they place measures to protect them from cyberattacks.

Target

Why Exponential-e

Our third-party provider is extremely responsive and can begin an engagement at short notice.
Our methodology is driven by up-to-date threat intelligence.
Our consultants are always available for follow-up calls and meetings.
We offer ongoing support, in case customers have further questions or queries.

Website Security Testing

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Exponential-e offers comprehensive and scalable quality assurance services for web applications with varying scopes and requirements.

Challenges

Due to their complexity and universality; web applications represent a unique challenge to the security posture of an organisation. Hence, it is critical to test them.

Service Capabilities

Scoping phase, with different levels of assessment:

Blackbox. The consultants assess the network as if they were a hacker with physical access.
Greybox. This offers the consultants more assistance connecting to the network, or they can test as an existing user, without any access credentials.
Whitebox. Full access to all resources required to assess the risk to vulnerable hosts and service is given to the consultants.

Once Scoping is complete, there are seven phases to be carried out:

Information Gathering / Discovery. Specific tools will be used to obtain information on the current internal infrastructure.
Service Enumeration. All services discovered on the hosts will be itemised, allowing specific software types and versions to be retrieved, as well as policies, shares, resources and valid user accounts.

Vulnerability Assessment. This phase will analyse the information retrieved in previous steps in order to determine whether a specific weakness exists.
Manual Testing. Next, manual testing and follow-up will be used to extract further sensitive information from the host or (depending on the rules of engagement) exploitation.
Post exploitation. Once a machine has been compromised, pivoting and lateral movement techniques will establish the true risk level by emulating the ‘snowball’ effect of stacked vulnerabilities.
Information Egress. The routes in which data can be extracted from the systems will be examined to identify where extra controls could be implemented or security enhanced.
Reporting. An executive summary, high level descriptions and technical details of each finding is provided to help implement remediations that not only fix the current issue, but also the underlying root cause, ensuring similar issues do not re-occur.

Target

Why Exponential-e

Focused testing without any distractions.
Detect broken links on your web pages.
Ensure that all possible test cases targeted on the web app work correctly.
Checks how apps work in the supported environments.
Guarantee a high-quality website.

Threat Detection Service

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Innovative detection with 24/7 intelligent monitoring and scanning to manage and mitigate active threats. We offer a solution to detect threats before they lead to cyberattacks.

Challenges

Businesses are frequently falling victim to billions of threats attempting to deceive and steal their valuable personal identifiable information and data. Resulting in significant fines and reputation damage, cyberattacks are a growing concern for businesses. Unfortunately, most businesses simply do not have the time or resources to extensively research the evolving threat landscape for the latest threats and cyberattacks. This makes them vulnerable to threats that could have been prevented.

Service Capabilities

Protect businesses and employees from targeted threats by proactively identifying and preventing cyberattacks.
Use proactive intelligence to uncover potential suspects, identifying any suspicious activity and monitoring it for progress and developments.
A Threat Detection Agent is deployed within minutes to send an alert on the discovery of any duplication or manipulation of the existing website. The customer’s digital assets are continually protected from exploitation and impersonation attempts from anywhere on the web. On average, a malicious website can be taken down within three hours.

Before a threat becomes a risk, we are able to block the digital assets and protect all of the endpoints.
Smart Deception technology allows the customer to submit unlimited fake credentials, diluting the data that cyber criminals are trying to steal, making it impracticable on the dark web.
We act as an active response team for digital risk, monitoring, managing, blocking and taking down any risks to the customer.
We safeguard assets, protect customers, remove the threat, and even act against the attackers, providing ultimate peace of mind.

Target

Why Exponential-e

Our third-party provider is extremely responsive and can begin an engagement at short notice.
Our methodology is driven by up-to-date threat intelligence.
Our consultants are always available for follow-up calls and meetings.
We offer ongoing guidance, as there will always be further questions and queries that require additional advice.

Advanced Threat Hunting

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Our Advanced Threat Hunting service allows customers to take control by actively defining and managing the breach detection gap that is essential for businesses.

Challenges

Today’s threat landscape is incredibly challenging, with cyberattacks taking place every minute. With the increase in intelligence and motivation to start these attacks, businesses need to ensure that their organisations are prepared and protected from the dangers of the digital world. The hacker’s goal is to penetrate the defences to steal data, deliver malware and cause disruption to the business.

Service Capabilities

By actively hunting threats, the volume of breaches is reduced, which creates a smaller attack surface with fewer vectors to attack.
A proactive approach is then taken to ensure that the customer will always stay one step ahead of cyber risks. This allows us to be more aware of impending threats, which can increase the speed and accuracy of the responses.
We identify the endpoints where focus will be placed, so the schedule scans can be conducted.
A series of automated analysis techniques are then applied via dissolvable agents.
Survey results are assessed by an experienced IR consultant. Attention is then focused on endpoints where malicious or suspicious activity is identified. Triage protocols are then deployed.
Once triage protocols are deployed, IR consultants quickly make decisions to investigate, remediate or remove affected hosts.
Depending on business requirements, scans can be schedules to be daily, weekly or even once in a longer period of time.

To identify and respond to incidents, the following cycles are completed:

Preparation. The employees must be trained and prepared to perform effectively and avoid critical mistakes.
Identify. Early identification of the nature of the attack can help any forensic investigations and increase awareness.
Contain. Containing the breach is imperative to minimise the impact. This can create strategies such as updating and patching systems, reviewing access protocols, reviewing user and administrative access credentials and strengthening passwords.
Eradicate, The root cause of the incident is eliminated with any malware removed, then updating and strengthening systems.
Recovery and Lessons Learnt. Systems and devices need to be restored to a safe state. At this stage, any analysis needs to be done to conduct a critical review of the incident. With the information gathered at this stage, businesses can enhance their ability to defend future attacks.

Target

Why Exponential-e

Our partners who conduct the hunts are all highly qualified, with a significant amount of incident response and digital investigation experience.
We offer a tailored service with how many scans are to be done according to business requirements.
Our experienced partners know where to look for threats. By identifying these endpoints, the focus can be optimised and efficient schedules planned.

Phishing Awareness Service

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Our objective-based, real-world attack simulations against people, software, hardware and physical facilities, emulates known tactics, techniques and procedures. Providing organisations with a holistic view of their security posture.

Challenges

There are so many vectors that can be used to gain access to information that there may be cases where a business may not know that they have vulnerabilities. Sometimes the only way to find any vulnerabilities is to simulate a Red Team Test. Our service can ensure the customer is proactive and know their weaknesses, so they can be prepared for an actual attack.

Service Capabilities

Phishing Awareness Training is a security and cyber risk platform that helps organisations reduce breaches caused by employee mistakes.
We combine necessary content with a persistent, non-intrusive training methodology to alter behaviour, improve knowledge, increase retention and lower risk of human error.
Our Phishing Awareness Training is able to evaluate employee’s response to phishing emails and track indicators across the causes of error.
Custom tests can be tailored to organisation’s requirements.

The ultimate goal of this training is to reduce human error. Teaching employees about common email phishing scams ensures they are more aware of malicious emails.
As employees become more aware of the risks, they are able to flag any unusual email activity, so the company itself becomes less vulnerable.
Email security awareness training for employees can increase compliance.
Reduce the risk of security breaches, ultimately reducing the risk of reputation damage.

Target

Why Exponential-e

We provide tailored delivery of authentic phishing attacks for training purposes.
Offering simple, intelligent and predictive test methods, to measure employee responses.
Can deliver training 12-15 times a year to ensure content remains relevant.
We provide a portfolio of our other security offerings to protect businesses.