Penetration testing finds vulnerabilities in your Products & IT before attackers do.
Penetration testing gives you confidence that weaknesses that could be used in a cyber-attack are identified before they can be exploited.
What is Penetration Testing
ur penetration testing service is a proactive solution designed to identify and fix vulnerabilities within your IT infrastructure and products, safeguarding your business against potential threats. By simulating cyber attacks under controlled conditions, our certified experts uncover weaknesses in networks, applications, and security controls that attackers might target, giving you clear insights into your security posture.
Our Team brings a wealth of experience to offer detailed vulnerability assessments and tailored recommendations that prioritise security without compromising business operations. We deliver comprehensive, plain language reports and risk-based remediation strategies, helping you meet regulatory compliance with ease.
Our penetration testing service is designed to support you in strengthening your defences against internal and external threats, helping your business maintain security while not drawing your time and attention away from your operational goals.
What's included
Planning and Scoping
We work with you to define the engagement’s scope, ensuring that testing addresses the most critical assets and relevant threat scenarios.
Vulnerability Identification
Our experts use industry-leading tools and methodologies to identify entry points, flagging misconfigurations, coding issues or outdated software.
Controlled Exploitation
We simulate real-world attack techniques, verifying how vulnerabilities might be exploited and determining the potential impact on your business.
Human-Led Testing
We don’t just run tools. We have expert pen testers rigorously testing your infrastructure and applications.
Simple Reporting
We provide easy-to-understand, comprehensive and tailored reports for both technical teams and executives alike.
Remediation Advice
Our team offers practical recommendations, prioritising high-impact fixes and helping you balance security measures with business needs.
Your Challenges
Unknown Vulnerabilities
You run some basic security scanning tools on your applications or environments, but you’re unsure what more advanced vulnerabilities might exist in your products.
Increasing External Scrutiny
External stakeholders such as clients, prospective clients, regulators and suppliers are becoming increasingly interested in seeing evidence of your cyber security defences.
Evidencing Compliance
SMBs face increasing regulatory and industry scrutiny from frameworks such as UK Data Protection Act, SOC2, the EU’s GDPR, PCI-DSS, NIS2 Directive, ISO 27001, etc. which explicitly require penetration testing.
Evolving Attack Techniques
With the proliferation of artificial intelligence and machine learning, more than ever cyber criminals are able to pivot their attack techniques to create more sophisticated ways to breach your systems.
Unknown Vulnerabilities
You run some basic security scanning tools on your applications or environments, but you’re unsure what more advanced vulnerabilities might exist in your products.
Increasing External Scrutiny
External stakeholders such as clients, prospective clients, regulators and suppliers are becoming increasingly interested in seeing evidence of your cyber security defences.
Evidencing Compliance
SMBs face increasing regulatory and industry scrutiny from frameworks such as UK Data Protection Act, SOC2, the EU’s GDPR, PCI-DSS, NIS2 Directive, ISO 27001, etc. which explicitly require penetration testing.
Evolving Attack Techniques
With the proliferation of artificial intelligence and machine learning, more than ever cyber criminals are able to pivot their attack techniques to create more sophisticated ways to breach your systems.
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Benefits
Our penetration testing provides a human-led approach to identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities across your products and IT infrastructure.
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Book HereLayman's Terms
Most penetration testing is provided by ‘techies’ and as a result, non-technical stakeholders (Head of Internal Audit, CIOs, etc.) misunderstand the significance or impact of test findings. Our penetration testing is designed by CISOs, delivered by technical experts, so you get both technical and business focused reports.
Risk-Based Prioritisation
We provide a transparent risk-based prioritisation of your findings to ensure you focus your remediation efforts in the right places. We provide technical scorings (e.g. CVSS score) but also our own proprietary prioritisation based off the specific business context.
Human-Led Testing
Most penetration testers will run a raft of automated tools and just send you the exported results. Our testing is human-led - only humans are able to truly simulate real-world cyber attacks. Our team of skilled ethical hackers bring expertise to ensure even the most advanced vulnerabilities are discovered.
Validation Testing
The most important element of any penetration test is to check that the remediation work has been effective. As long as you remediate within one month of receiving the test findings, you’ll get included a re-test to validate all fixes have been successfully applied.
Rapid Remediation
Traditionally, testers send excel spreadsheets of their findings that you then need to import manually into your ticketing tool such as JIRA. We automatically import all vulnerabilities directly into your JIRA instance (or equivalent) so that you can focus on fixes rather than the admin.
Network To Source Code
You can get all levels of your IT infrastructure tested via one single process. From testing whether someone can externally penetrate your network perimeter, through to a manual review of a mobile application source code, we provide the level of assurance you need.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- How Often Should Penetration Testing be Conducted?
It depends on the business, regulatory environment, your compliance requirements etc. but we generally advise that each business should define a testing schedule which outline what types of testing are required, how frequently and what should be tested.
Generally, network level penetration tests should be conducted at least annually, but more so if there are significant changes in your IT infrastructure. For software and applications, security testing should be fully integrated into your secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) and so again depending on the context, you might be able to perform slightly less frequent testing here (e.g. every 2 years).
- How Long Does a Penetration Test Take?
The duration of the penetration test depends on the scope and type of testing performed. A small-scale test of a single web application may a day or two, whereas more advanced tests across multiple network segments may take several weeks.
- What Should I Expect in a Penetration Test Report?
Typically, you would just receive one excel based export report that the pen tester has simply exported from their scanning tools.
At CyPro, we like to do things properly. We provide three types of report tailored to the three main stakeholder groups;
- Technical Reports – we feed vulnerabilities and findings directly into your JIRA (or equivalent workflow management tool) for quick and easy remediation. This is directed at technical stakeholders such as developers, engineers and network architects.
- Non-Technical Executive Reports – for non-technical stakeholders such as executive and senior management, we produce a summary report in layman’s terms that translate what the findings mean from a business perspective.
- Third Party Redacted Summary – many suppliers, investors, prospective clients, etc. now ask for evidence that a recent penetration test has been conducted and so we provide a high-level summary of the testing performed, the scope, etc. ensuring to exclude any information on specific vulnerabilities. This ensure that whilst sensitive vulnerability information is not shared, they still receive the assurance they require.
- Can Penetration Testing Disrupt Business Operations?
Yes, absolutely. If penetration testing is not performed according to best practice (i.e. testing live production systems during business hours) then penetration testing can cause significant business disruption.
We use only CREST accredited testers which ensures that our penetration tests are carefully planned to avoid disruption to your business operations.
- What is another word for penetration testing?
Penetration testing can often also be referred to as ‘ethical hacking’ or a ‘pen test’.
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