During Penetration Testing we try to penetrate your existing firewall using sophisticated tools and social engineering. Your firewall is a device that sits between your private network and the Internet. It is designed to stop malicious users (network burglars/hackers) on the Internet from getting into your network. It is similar to the lock you have on the front door of your physical building.

Penetrating the firewall isn’t limited to seeing if we can get past it into your private network, but in addition we try to see what information about your private network is leaked out through the device. Can we learn information about your internal configuration that you wouldn’t want the world to know?

We also employ social engineering techniques. You can have the most expensive software and hardware protecting your network; however you can still be vulnerable to being penetrated by the human factor, your users. Through social engineering techniques we will try to get your users to divulge information about your network that would enable a “network burglar” to gain access. This can be done for example by calling up an employee and telling them that we’re helping them with a fictious network problem and getting them to divulge information they shouldn’t or sending them an e-mail which contains a malicious program and getting them to run it.

The ways that a “network burglar” or hacker tries to penetrate a secure network are numerous, we will employ a variety of those means to see where you are vulnerable and then produce a report to help you close any holes in your security.