Penetration Testing

Lynxes Solutions offers comprehensive vulnerability assessment and penetration testing services to help organizations keep their data and systems safe from attack. Our team of security experts will work with you to identify potential vulnerabilities and recommend solutions to mitigate the risks. We also offer penetration testing services to simulate real-world attacks and test your organization’s ability to detect and respond to them

Our team of experienced security professionals will work with you to understand your unique environment and business needs, and then design and execute a customized testing plan that meet your specific requirements.

We offer both black box and white box testing services, as well as social engineering and physical security assessments. Our comprehensive approach ensures that we Cover all the bases and find any potential vulnerabilities that could jeopardize the security of your organization.

Don’t wait until it’s too late – contact Lynxes Solutions today to learn more about our penetration testing services and how we can help you secure your business.

Ethical Hacking to Prevent a Potential Intrusion

Lynxes Solutions offers complete penetration testing services designed to identify system vulnerabilities, validate existing security measures and provide a detailed remediation roadmap.

Our team, equipped with the latest tools and industry-specific test scenarios, is ready to deliver a thorough checkup to pinpoint syste vulnerabilities, as well as flaws in application, service and OS, loopholes in configurations, and potentially dangerous non-compliance with security policies.

Types of a penetration test we provide

•   Network Services Test
•   Web Application Penetration Test
•   Physical Security Test
•   Remote Access Security Test
•   Social Engineering Test

3 Steps of a Penetration Test

Deliverables

At the end of the penetration testing procedure, we provide our customers with an extensive set of reports and recommendations to effectively eliminate the detected breaches:

•   Brief description based on the achieved results and findings.
•   List of detected system vulnerabilities and their classification according to how easy they are to exploit and how harmful for the system and business they may be.
•   List of changes in the system that were implemented during testing.
•   Test protocol (including instruments and tools used, parts that were checked and issues found).
•   Actionable recommendations to eliminate the revealed security issues.

API penetration testing is an ethical hacking process to assess the security of the API design. API tests involve attempting to exploit identified issues and reporting them to strengthen the API to prevent unauthorized access or a data breach.

Our comprehensive API pen testing services will help you ensure that your API endpoints are designed and configured according to best practices. Our report will provide an analysis of the current functionality of your API to ensure they are safely supporting your web application or mobile application. Through this type of security testing, you will readily see how API endpoint vulnerabilities can impact your business, including specific detail on how the Confidentiality, Availability, and Integrity of your systems could be impacted. The results of our security testing will help you prioritize which vulnerabilities to consider for immediate remediation and how best to use your budget to maximize strength and resilience in your cybersecurity posture.

Our API pen testing services consist of manual testing and automated testing. While automated testing enables efficiency, it effectively provides efficiency only during the initial phases of a penetration test. At Red Team Security, we believe that an effective and comprehensive penetration test can only be realized through rigorous manual testing techniques.

Benefits of API Penetration testing

• API testing validates the security of your methods and corresponding data. Our professional Consultants team work to ensure the functionality of the business logic remains intact, and that data is safely transferred from web applications or mobile applications to other systems or databases
• Building regular web API updates and frequent testing into your workflow will help ensure a dependable performance and prevent the build-up of costly remediation.
• API security reduces the likelihood that an attacker will exfiltrate data and compromise your application.

Web application penetration testing is the practice of simulating attacks on a system in an attempt to gain access to sensitive data, with the purpose of determining whether a system is secure. These attacks are performed either internally or externally on a system, and they help provide information about the target system, identify vulnerabilities within them, and uncover exploits that could actually compromise the system. It is an essential health check of a system that informs testers whether remediation and security measures are needed.

We adopt the following key steps to performing penetration testing on web applications so that anticipated results can be achieved with respect to Web application security.

1) Planning Phase

During the planning phase, we define the scope, timeline, and testing target, determine the scope of the target environment, and develop the communications procedures. Additionally, application pages are also tested to perform either internal or external testing or both.

We also strictly focus upon the timeline for the whole process. This ensures that the assessment doesn’t drag out and timely security controls can be put into place to strengthen the defence for application.

2) Pre-Attack Phase

In this phase, reconnaissance is carried out which is important for paving the way for the next phase of testing and any other information available publicly that can be used against the organisation.

We perform port scanning, service identification, vulnerability assessment, etc. in this phase of testing.

3) Attack Phase

During the attack phase, we do vulnerability detection, scanning, service identification, and exploit the vulnerabilities found in the last phase

4) Post-Attack Phase

After the penetration testing is complete, a full detailed report is generated. This report can vary due to the type of application that is pen-tested. Generally, the penetration testing report includes a list of vulnerabilities, an analysis of the finding, proposed remediations, and a conclusion.

Benefits of Web Application Pen Testing

There are several key benefits to incorporating web application penetration testing into a security program.

•   It helps satisfy compliance requirements. Pen testing is explicitly required in some industries, and performing web application pen testing helps meet this requirement.
•   It helps assess infrastructure. Infrastructure, like firewalls and DNS servers, is public-facing. Any changes made to the infrastructure can make a system vulnerable. Web application pen testing helps identify real-world attacks that could succeed at accessing these systems.
•   It identifies vulnerabilities. Web application pen testing identifies loopholes in applications or vulnerable routes in infrastructure.
•   It helps confirm security policies. Web application pen testing assesses existing security policies for any weaknesses.

Deliverables

At the end of the penetration testing procedure, we provide our customers with a set of reports and recommendations to effectively eliminate the detected breaches:

•   Brief description based on the achieved results and findings.
•   List of detected system vulnerabilities and their classification according to how easy they are to exploit and how harmful for the system and business they may be.
•   List of changes in the system that were implemented during testing
•   Test protocol (including instruments and tools used, parts that were checked and issues found).
•   Actionable recommendations to eliminate the revealed security issues.

Red teams refer to the “ethical hackers” who assist test an enterprise’s defenses by identifying vulnerabilities and launching attacks in a controlled environment. Red teams are opposed by defenders called blue teams, and both parties work together to provide a comprehensive picture of organizational security readiness.

Our Red Team professionals have many years experienced in their domain and have provided services to clients efficiently. Our Red Team focuses upon having right conditions, setting clear objectives, getting right tools, supporting team and focus on key issues in order to perform their challenging responsibilities effectively.

In the context of information security, red team security testing is best conceived as “ethical hacking.” An independent security team (the red team) poses as an attacker in order to gauge vulnerabilities and risk within a controlled environment.

Red team tests are designed to expose vulnerabilities associated not only with security infrastructure (networks, routers, switches, etc.) but also with people and even physical locations.

Amidst a red team test, skilled security operatives typically launch a variety of attacks leveraging the weaknesses within any of these elements. Standard techniques deployed include social engineering, phishing attempts, penetration tests, and tools such as packet sniffers and protocol analyzers.

Before the attacks commence, a red team commences by learning as much as it can about the intended target. Information is collected by identifying the network infrastructure, operating systems in use, vulnerable ports and other factors. Once this reconnaissance is complete, the red team has enough information to develop a network map and a broader idea of the attack paths and techniques that are likely to succeed.

•   Define information security-related roles and responsibilities
•   Maintain a risk-based security posture that enables business continuity in response to cybersecurity incidents
•   Performing Remediation Planning
•   Implement security controls aligned with data asset criticality and sensitivity
•   Notify APRA of information security incidents

Benefits of Red Team

•   Uncover attack vectors that attackers could exploit.
•   Demonstrate how attackers could move throughout your system.
•   Provide insight into your organization’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to advanced threats.
•   Identify alternative options or outcomes of an action or attack plan.
•   Prioritize remediation plans based on what is causing the greatest risk.
•   Build a business case for improvements, deploying new solutions, and another security spending.

Deliverables

• Our Team provides a precise and concise description of achieved results and technical findings.
• List of detected system vulnerabilities and their classification according to how easy they are to exploit and how harmful for the system and business they may be.

Purple teams provide a holistic approach to cyber security practice, prioritizing both the offensive and defensive tactics to keep organization assets secure. The role of purple teams is to give organizations a connected unit between red and blue teams.

The purple team is designed as a feedback bridge between the red and blue teams, modifying their approach to be more proactive, direct and in the end, more effective in terms of an organization’s overall security posture. The Purple team is a security practice which allows for sharing of intelligence data between the Red Team and Blue Team, supporting real-time feedback and communicating their insights with one another.

Purple Team Best Practices

If an organization is looking into improving its current red team and blue team practices by implementing Purple Team, the following steps should be considered.

Make sure everyone is in the right role

Collaboration and communication are key points, and it’s vital for both teams to share their findings and assist each other, you should never expect red teamers to engage in the full vulnerability management process nor to hold the Blue Team responsible as expert hackers.

Establishing clear roles and expectations for each team, while keeping communication open goes far in ensuring a successful Purple Team methodology.

Never skip planning

In order to acquire the most benefit from the exercise, start by concisely defining goals. if the organization is working on improving security alerts, or on security policies and processes as well as verifying how well employees can protect themselves against social engineering.

Track and revise the process

Before implementing the security remediations, revise, verify and track each step clearly, assess every task before moving on to the next, and always follow up.

Benefits of Purple Team

•   Provide more effective vulnerability detection
•   Create healthier cybersecurity culture by integrating Blue Team with the Red Team.
•   Improve Security and design exercise.

Our professional Purple Team is fully trained and experienced and has delivered services to clients successfully.

Wireless testing refers to the assessment of the configuration and deployment of wireless networks and devices in order to ensure that only the intended end users may utilise the network and associated services.

Testing uses a combination of wireless signal scanning of access points and the configuration reviews of wireless controllers to ensure the wireless networks are correctly configured, preventing the access of unauthorised users. Wireless Security testing is bespoke depending on the goal or outcome you wish to achieve, therefore there is no off-the-shelf price for a wireless penetration test.

For each project, we will technically scope your requirements and establish the time needed to complete the work. We will then provide a detailed proposal and breakdown of costs and options

Our team possess several of years valuable experience conducting a wider range of government and commercial tests and always aims to go the extra mile for our customers.

The Strategies and Tools of Wireless Security Testing

Our wireless penetration testers carry out a range of tests against the wireless local area network (WLAN) and wireless access points (WAP).

The goal of wireless penetration testing is four-fold:

•   Grade the effectiveness of wireless security programs
•   Fully understand the risk presented by each wireless access point
•   Discover and assess vulnerabilities
•  Generate a data-driven action plan to correct vulnerabilities and remediate risk

Wireless Security Testing Methodology

The Wireless testing methodology comprised of five phases. Our professional team perform this methodology in a professional manner so that security loopholes can be discovered and rectified by applying technical security measures to avoid any data breaches.

The Information Gathering

The information-gathering phase of a wireless network security test consists of network enumeration, identifying the SSIDs (network names) in scope and in range of your Wi-Fi network.

Threat Modeling

With the information collected during Information Gathering, security testing transitions to threat modelling where assets are identified and categorized into threat categories.

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability analysis step in a wireless penetration test involves the review, documenting and analysis of vulnerabilities discovered as a result of information gathering and threat modelling.

Exploitation

The Exploitation phase of a wireless penetration test involves establishing access to the wireless network, and potentially your internal network, through the bypassing of security controls and exploitation of vulnerabilities in order to determine their real-world risk

Reporting

The reporting step is intended to provide actionable results to the project stakeholders. Red Team will compile, document and risk rate findings and generate a clear, actionable report, complete with evidence, for project stakeholders.

Benefits of Wireless Security Testing

Wireless testing gives assurance on the security of your internal wireless networks, devices and users as below: Access – Ensure your wireless network cannot be accessed or compromised from outside your premises. Separation – Ensure guest or public hotspot users cannot access non-intended internal networks. Configuration – Ensure your access points, controllers and devices are securely configured. Deployment – Ensure that only authorized access points are deployed and no rogue access points have been installed.

Deliverables

We deliver a complete penetration testing or vulnerability assessment report for infrastructure testing, which covers the following: Executive management summary – Non- technical overview of issues for management board level Detailed technical findings – A complete list of all issues identified during the test. Affected hosts – A list of all affected wireless hosts/SSIDs/configuration settings discovered during the penetration test. Risk level – Impact, likelihood and overall risk ratings are listed clearly and concisely for each issue. Examples – Output or screenshots to demonstrate the issue. Recommendations – Recommendations of how to remediate the issues are also given.