Cybersecurity - Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing

Keeping your data secure by thorough Vulnerability and Penetration Testing

Were you aware that unattended vulnerabilities will expose your company to data leakage/theft and can result in costly downtime?

An Overview

Our Service in a nutshell

One of the most prevalent penetration testing activities from start-ups to world leading organizations, is External Vulnerability Assessment Penetration Testing, typically targeting internet-facing websites. As we provide services for vulnerability assessments and penetration testing for all scale enterprises; scanning of external-facing network resources is crucial, and a high priority. But we also challenge you to understand that scanning alone is not enough unless all you want is a checkmark for an audit of one kind or another. Fuzail Al Arabia offers you a thorough job of assessing the hardness of your external network, which consists of several phases realized per OSSTMM. This black box type of penetration test executed from the perspective of an unethical attacker who does not have any information about testing topology and services.

ABOUT THE SERVICE

Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing: Improving your organization's security

There’s an old saying: “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is today.” There’s no better time than now to start uncovering and addressing the vulnerabilities that can cause no end of expense, embarrassment, and litigation for your Organization.

It’s easy to get started and costs less than you probably think.

Overview:

A Vulnerability Assessment (VA): is an automated scan of your network infrastructure that allows the customer to view the security status of its systems to any known vulnerabilities. With this objective, automatic scans are used to carry out a series of checks on every system/application to understand their configuration in detail and detect any vulnerability. Additionally, the usage of automated tools makes it impossible to extend checks beyond the vulnerabilities for which the specific tool is. To check the real possibilities, an attacker would have to exploit the vulnerabilities.

Penetration Testing (PT): During a Penetration test, intrusion simulations are carried out using different attack scenarios and combining manual techniques with automated tools.

Methodology:

Fuzail Al Arabia’s Internal Network Penetration Test is a hand-crafted and thoroughly executed assault on your systems and applications. Our goal is to reveal any hidden threats and vulnerabilities so you can act to address them.

Planning and execution by highly skilled cybersecurity experts penetration testers run a full series of hand-crafted simulated attacks against your systems and applications. We view your infrastructure the way an intruder would – anything from a teen thrill-hacker to malicious assaults by highly skilled adversaries. Our personnel can quickly identify the most likely vectors for attacks.

We establish a robust and concise document signed by both parties that sets the ground rules for your engagement, including

Schedule and location of testing
Scope of Attack
Entry and exit strategies
Other guidelines.

Thoroughly researching your employees. We also examine your users through Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) sources such as social networking sites, online trade journals, and others. There we can gather clues about potential usernames, passwords, roles-based privileges, and other information that’s useful for “breaking in,” Sounds scary. It is. But that’s what the bad guys do. And you want us thinking and acting like bad guys.

A firmly established level of effort. Our methodology includes a clear understanding of which assets are within the evaluation boundary. This level of energy correlates to the importance of the systems, the system owner’s risk aversion, or the anticipated motivation of adversaries.

Hand-crafted penetration attempts

Utilizing the results of the tools and the research, Fuzail Al Arabia analysts conduct hand-crafted penetration attempts to determine areas of weakness. Fuzail Al Arabia’s security experts are skilled in penetration testing, proficient in the field of exploitation and reverse engineering, making them exclusive in their domain.

Thoroughly documented reports and suggestions

Documentation of the results of all significant penetration attempt vectors. Fuzail Al Arabia prepares and delivers a report detailing
the types of tests,
the status of their success or failure,
any discovered issues,
the resultant risks (sorted by priority),
and suggested remediation efforts.

Our methodology is also consistent with guidance from external organizations such as OWASP (Open Web Applications Security Project), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM).

What we assess?

Internal Network VA/PT:

Information collection – all information related to the target system is obtained, classified, and analyzed, including the version of the webserver, modules used, programming platform, WAF, and access points to the application.

Enumeration and Scanning of Vulnerabilities – employing intrusive methods and techniques, potential vulnerabilities are recognized using special scanners, fault-injection proxies as well as manual verification.

Vulnerability control – application of security scan to detect existing vulnerabilities in services identified during TCP/UDP port-scan.

Penetration – an attempt to exploit available vulnerabilities, insufficient configuration. For penetration to other systems and devices, an increase of user rights and access to resources.

Use of vulnerabilities – attempt to gain access by using vulnerabilities identified in the previous phase of testing. The goal is to gain user access or privileged (Administrator) access to the application or operating system by using individually customized scripts and exploit methodology.

Testing of mail server – in addition to the screening of known vulnerabilities, several detailed SMTP tests are executed to verify any relaying problems of the Exchange Servers. All the possibilities for abuse of the SMTP servers by spammers and the resistance of server to potential DOS attacks discovery are verified. Additionally, vulnerabilities and weaknesses of any anti-virus and anti-spam implementations that could be potentially exploitable are discovered.

Testing DNS zones – In addition to the testing of known vulnerabilities of the concrete implementation of the DNS server, tests are executed for consistency of all the zones on all DNS servers. The possibility of public zone transfer and vulnerability of DNS caching attacks are checked as well.

Internal Network VA/PT:

Network scanning using various methods (e.g., SYN scans, UDP scans, ACK scans)

Vulnerability scanning to identify multiple low-hanging vulnerabilities

Specialized network scanning for specific protocols (such as SIP, IPMI, and SNMP)

For a Penetration Test to be beneficial, we perform many manual tests allowing us to simulate real attackers which includes, but not limited to:

Man-in-the-Middle attacks

The exploitation of software that has not been hardened or securely configured

Exploitation and demonstration of known vulnerabilities which are typically detected through network scanning but not verified

Pass-the-hash (PtH) attacks, lateral movements, NTLM offline brute force, credential dumping, etc.

Default or weak credentials

Lack of network access control and proper network segmentation

Ways to bypass or abuse security solutions

Obvious security issues within the target software (low hanging fruit)

Benefits.

Prevents unnecessary and expensive downtime and data theft by providing you with early warning security intelligence. Helps your organization to be upbeat in preventing attacks. Help meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Customized reports will help you take both strategic and tactical decisions.