Penetration Testing

The threat landscape is evolving rapidly. Are your penetrating testing efforts keeping up?

In today’s world, businesses face a growing risk of data exposure. Between a staggering number of security vulnerabilities, and an increasing dependence on externally managed assets, attackers have more pathways to reach sensitive data than ever before, and they’re constantly on the lookout for them.

Unfortunately, many organizations aren’t keeping as watchful of an eye for risk on their perimeter as the attackers. Manual penetration tests are often only performed once per year, but when new risks arise in the interim, it’s likely that no one will know until months, or even years, down the line, long after an attacker could have done their damage.

Here’s the thing about manual penetration testing. We believe it has an important role to play in every organization’s security program. In fact, it’s a service we ourselves offer at Halo Security, because some security issues can only be recognized by human intelligence.

But, it’s not a catch-all solution. Manual penetration tests tend to be too expensive to run every time the attack surface changes. That means some assets may not get tested at all, and others aren’t tested frequently enough, which leaves ample opportunity for attacks and highly exploitable vulnerabilities to go undetected.

Manual penetration testing is also time consuming. Testers are often forced to spend valuable time looking for common vulnerabilities that could have been detected far more efficiently with automated tools, which means they have less time to spend looking for the more complex vulnerabilities that require human expertise and experience.

By implementing automated penetration testing and vulnerability scanning tools, you can make manual penetration testing efforts more efficient and fill in any gaps they may leave behind. Automated penetration testing is designed to run on a continuous basis, so you can get instantly alerted whenever an issue is detected. And since automated tools are always monitoring for the easy-to-find issues, when you do hire manual penetration testers, they can focus more of their time looking for the issues that only an experienced eye could spot.

Try Halo Security’s comprehensive automated and manual penetration testing services

Automated and manual penetration testing are both important components of Halo Security’s unique approach to attack surface management.

With the Halo Security platform, our goal is to help you get a clear, comprehensive view of web security risks and vulnerabilities across all of your external-facing assets. We prioritize risk by severity of the threat and ease of fix, allowing you to quickly remediate the most dangerous issues. Our platform monitors your attack surface on a continuous basis, alerting you the instant an new issue arises. And with the easily discoverable issues already detected with automation, our manual penetration testers can help you find advanced risks more efficiently and at a lower cost.