Why Penetration Testing is Important to Red Team Members
The challenge:
Leveraging vulnerability research to find the most applicable threats to your environment
As a security testing professional, you are responsible for making sure that your organization stays on top of its most pressing vulnerabilities in the face of a constantly evolving IT and networking landscape. While you already have the ability to assess a wide range of potential weaknesses in your organization’s defenses to help limit exposure, the constant push to adopt new technologies and allow line-of-business teams to introduce new systems or applications makes it challenging to keep up and maximize your time and resources.
You likely already have a collection of tools, utilities and frameworks that allow you to recreate common malware attacks and hacking techniques. You may even have experts on your team who can hand-script unique, complex threat models that mimic the development patterns of real cyber-criminals. These are valuable assets that help drive the penetration testing process, but they require hard-to-find skills and demand significant time to complete custom scripting or tailor framework-borne exploits to address your unique IT environments.
To make the most of your time and in-house penetration testing capabilities, you need commercial-grade testing products that allow you to efficiently cover the widest-possible range of potential vulnerabilities across a broad array of IT assets. You need to increase your team’s effectiveness in testing your organization’s most critical areas of security risk and guiding related remediation efforts.
The solution:
Efficient penetration testing capabilities and leading-edge threat expertise
Arm your red team with intelligent penetration testing instruments
CORE IMPACT Pro is the most polished, commercial-grade security testing solution ever devised, offering red teams unmatched flexibility and automation to rapidly launch an wide spectrum of real-world threat models across your organization’s IT and networking infrastructure. When you add CORE IMPACT Pro to your arsenal of testing mechanisms you get:
- A product that reflects over a decade of professional vulnerability research and commercial-grade exploit development, constantly updated as threats emerge.
- Comprehensive penetration testing capabilities across a wide range of threat vectors including network systems, endpoint systems, email users, web applications and wireless networks.
- Integration with the Metasploit open-source penetration testing framework.
- Automation of traditionally mundane penetration testing work that adds repeatability and efficiency to the security testing process.
- The ability to manually fine-tune penetration tests to your specific requirements via an extensible Python-based scripting framework.
- Safe emulation of multistaged threats to test both perimeter and internal defenses using privilege escalation and pivoting techniques to identify available routes to valuable systems and data.
- Actionable data in the form of detailed reports highlighting risks, including targeted systems, tests conducted, vulnerabilities exploited, and attack paths followed -- plus links to patches and other remediation data.
- The ability to illustrate testing results to both technical and nontechnical audiences via a wide range of customizable reports.
CORE IMPACT Pro can help streamline your team’s ability to ensure that your organization is protected from the widest array of threats and vulnerabilities, make the most of its human talents, and supercharge its daily workflow.
Tap into a wealth of threat expertise
When you use CORE IMPACT products for security testing, you get more than just software applications; you get a culmination of ongoing, independent vulnerability research from some of the best minds in the business.
The CoreLabs research team filters hundreds of vulnerabilities per month to determine which pose critical threats to our customers. This analysis, combined the company’s own vulnerability discoveries and the Core Security Consulting group’s field experience, drives the development of real-world threat models by Core Engineering.
These threat models, in the form of exploits and other attack mechanisms, help to make CORE IMPACT the most comprehensive, effective security testing solution available today.
