Benefits of Pentests

Growing Security Needs

For almost all companies today, the security of the own network is imperative for business success. With the increasing usage of information technology it gets more and more important to protect against threats like industrial espionage or attacks on the availability. The breakdown of systems alone through a malicious attack can create huge costs, if it causes a production stop. The classical espionage of company secrets has already shifted to electronic data communication, intrusions into IT-systems happen on a daily basis.

Revealing Security Flaws

By doing a controlled simulation of an attack, a penetration test uncovers security flaws in a realistic way. The spectrum of tested systems reaches from simple onlineshops to complex company networks. The attacking methods are also manifold and range from passive information gathering over targeted attacks from the internet to the identification of weaknesses which can only be detected on-site.

Protecting Company Values, Earning Customers' Trust

A pentest therefore serves the protection of the own company values as well as the protection of the companies' customers, which represent the businesses' assets. This creates trust in the companies' work. Additionally, pentests play an important role in quality assurance, e.g. in the development of new IT products. To be able to advertise the security of the own product can prove to be a significant competetive advantage.

Information about the technical process of a pentest can be found under Reconnaissance, Enumeration, Exploitation and Documentation. If there are still questions left, please do not hesitate to contact us.