Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing(VAPT)

  

What is a Vulnerability Assessment?

A vulnerability assessment is a periodic review of security weaknesses in an information system. It estimates if the system is susceptible to any comprehended vulnerabilities, allocates severity levels to those vulnerabilities, and suggests remediation or mitigation, if and whenever required. Also, using a risk-based method, vulnerability assessments may target different layers of technology and systems, the most common being host-, network, and application-layer, the infrastructure of network reviews.

There are several types of vulnerability assessments. These include:

Host-based assessment – The review of critical servers, which may be vulnerable to attacks if not adequately tested or not generated from a tested machine image.

Network and wireless assessment – The assessment of policies and practices to prevent unauthorized access to private or public networks and network-accessible resources.

Database assessment – The assessment of databases or large data systems for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, identifying rogue databases or insecure dev/test environments, and classifying sensitive data across an organization's infrastructure.

Application scans – Identifying security vulnerabilities in web applications and their source code by automated scans on the front-end or static/dynamic source code analysis.

Essential Tools for Vulnerability Assessment

1. Nessus 

2. Acunetix ( Web Vulnerability Assessment)

3. Netsparkar ( Web Vulnerability Assessment)

4. Nmap / NmapAutomator

5. Nikto

6. Dirb / Gobuster

7. Openvas

8. W3AF

9. Other Automated tools

What is a Penetration Test?

Penetration testing, also known as penetration testing, is a simulated cyberattack on computer systems to check for exploitable vulnerabilities. In the context of web application security, penetration testing is often used to extend a web application firewall (WAF).

Penetration testing can include breaching any number of application systems (application protocol interfaces (APIs), front-end/back-end servers, etc.) and discovering vulnerabilities such as unsanitized inputs that are susceptible to code injection attacks.

Essential Tools for Penetration Test

1. Metasploit

2. Fuzzdb 

3. SqlMap

4. WpScan

5. MobSF

6. BurpSuite Professional

7. Hydra

8. Aircrack-ng

9. John the Ripper

10. Hashcat

11. Odat

12. Openvas

Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing Methodology

Step 1- Information Gathering

To provide you with the best security solution, we must first understand how your system operates. We conduct thorough reconnaissance on the target and gather as much information as possible. We extract information such as the operating system, versions, frameworks, programming languages, open ports, and other information to aid in vulnerability assessments.

Step 2- Vulnerability Analysis

A comprehensive examination of your system's weaknesses. We begin the test by looking over OWSAP's top ten vulnerabilities. Then we'll search for other potential flaws, such as logical flaws, that might expose us to significant security risks.

Step 3-Exploitation

Our security researchers exploit your system with the mindset of a hacker to find the last possible vulnerability.

Step 4- Reporting
Documentation of where and how the patches can be applied will be sent to your developer's team for a fix. The document outlines the root cause and contains a remedy plan organized by vulnerability severity.