It’s no secret: the number of security vulnerabilities organizations must contend with is overwhelming. According to a 2019 Risk Based Security report, there were 22,316 newly-discovered vulnerabilities last year. One Patch Tuesday disclosed a record number of 327 vulnerabilities in a single day. Just keeping up is becoming a monumental task. But knowing where and how your organization may be vulnerable is critical to maintaining a healthy security posture.

Whether it’s a security assessment, a vulnerability scan, a red team or a pen test – What’s common? To identify issues and mitigate them from an organizational risk perspective. This article is aimed at weeding out various confusions from the readers mind. Stock up your caffeine, we are going to cover these areas under this topic.

These days computers and the software that operate upon them touch practically every part of our professional and personal lives. The information they store, process and transmit is the foundation upon which businesses are built, how customer experiences are delivered, and how we find the best takeout food in our immediate area. So why is it so hard to keep them highly secure?

We are adding CREST to our growing list of industry certifications, which includes PCI ASV and ISO 27001 ensuring our customers know they’re in good hands and the services they receive meet industry best practice and vital data sovereignty standards.

This blog from senior security consultant Jed Kafetz runs through the key information Redscan requires to scope, plan and price a web application penetration test to ensure it delivers the best outcomes and value for money. When reaching out to us for a quotation, providing the most complete and accurate information possible will not only guarantee a quick turnaround time, but will also ensure that we are not under or over scoping the engagement.

Cybersecurity penetration testing is a method of checking for security weaknesses in software and systems by simulating real-world cyber-attacks. Also known colloquially as 'pen tests,' penetration tests probe beyond the scope of automated vulnerability scans. Pen tests find gaps in protection that can arise when unique combinations of applications, systems, and security defenses work together in live environments.

In many cases, penetration testing – a type of ethical hacking engagement designed to identify and address security vulnerabilities in networks, systems and applications – is required. Sometimes this requirement is specified directly, while in other cases it is implied by a need to build audit or assessment processes to mitigate cyber risk. This blog identifies some of the most common pen testing standards and regulations and provides guidance about the type of testing required.

During a penetration test, it's not an uncommon practice for a penetration tester to launch a password attack against Active Directory. Many times this password attack uses a list of domain user accounts that were enumerated or even just a list of potential domain user accounts that were generated randomly. Many penetration testers will either perform just a single password attack or at least 2-3 attempts, depending on domain's password lockout policy is set to.

Research by Cybersecurity Ventures projects a doubling of the global cost of cybercrime in the 2015-2021 period from $3 trillion to $6 trillion. The escalation of cybercrime is closely related to the rapid expansion of the cyber attack surface. For instance, the total number of Internet users doubled between 2015 and 2018 from 2 billion to 4 billion, and is expected to hit 6 billion by 2022.