Technical Assessments
Web Application Pentest + Web Services pentest
Our web application penetration testing focuses on identifying vulnerabilities within the entire web application structure itself. This includes the user interface, login elements, forms, etc. While our web services penetration testing is narrowed down further to identify vulnerabilities in the APIs and backend servers. To detect these vulnerabilities, we simulate real-world attacks on your web application or web services.
Across Verticals’ penetration testing process covers all areas of your web application and web services with a comprehensive, thorough assessment which then helps us provide you with the best recommendations to secure your web apps according to the industry’s highest standards.
As a certified CREST OVS Web Application service supplier, Across Verticals’ application testing is conducted in adherence to OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) for assessment methodology.
Mobile application penetration testing
For mobile application penetration testing, our team at Across Verticals works on conducting security assessments that target vulnerabilities in your mobile applications regardless of the platform they’re on. These assessments thoroughly test both the front and back end of applications to ensure that your customers’ data is always protected.
With the increasing reliance on mobile apps for customer engagement, data processing, and online transactions, this form of testing is essential for maintaining data integrity, meeting regulatory requirements, and protecting your brand’s reputation.
As a certified CREST OVS Mobile Application service supplier, Across Verticals’ application testing is conducted in adherence to OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS) for assessment methodology. Across Verticals can deliver assessments against applications up to Level 3 security verification levels and up to Level 2 security verifications for Mobile Application testing.
Thick client penetration testing
For thick applications, the majority of their processing is done on the client side rather than on their servers. These applications include video conferencing software, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications, etc.
Penetration testing for these applications involves assessing the security of both the client software and its interactions with the backend server. It ensures that these applications are secure against potential threats that can occur from reverse engineering, data interception, and unauthorized internal access.
Source Code Review
The source code is the literal heart of your application. Identifying potential vulnerabilities or errors that hackers can exploit right at the source helps you lay a solid security foundation for your application before it is deployed for your users.
Here at Across Verticals, we conduct this process both manually and with the assistance of automated tools to ensure that our assessments are extensive and complete. We will review the code and provide detailed findings that identify where your problems lie and suggest tailored solutions.
Our approach is to scrutinize your application in various aspects such as authentication, session management, and data validation. This helps us target the most critical (and likely) problem areas.
The goal is to help your business detect security flaws in the development cycle. This will allow you to save on future security costs, and maintain a strong reputation that builds trust with your users.
Network Vulnerability Assessment & Pentest
A network VAPT is crucial in identifying and mitigating risks before attackers can exploit them, reducing the likelihood of costly data breaches. Across Verticals are experts in identifying weak points through our VAPT, so companies can prevent these attacks from disrupting their operations.
The beauty of this assessment is that it not only reveals technical flaws in the network but it also highlights weaknesses in the overall design of the network. With these insights, businesses can focus on improving and securing their network architecture only for the better.
Wireless Network Penetration Test
Businesses and organizations use wireless networks daily as they are often a key access point to a company’s internal systems. A wireless network penetration test is an authorized hacking attempt, which is designed to detect and exploit vulnerabilities in security controls employed by several wireless technologies and standards, misconfigured access points, and weak security protocols.
If vulnerabilities do exist in your organization’s wireless network, attackers could exploit them to gain access to sensitive data. Across Verticals’ wireless network penetration test helps verify that encryption protocols are strong enough to block any unauthorized access.
With our expertise in compliance as well, our penetration testing service also checks and confirms that your wireless networks are compliant with the highest industry standards. This service is an essential part of a strong security system as remote work and the need for mobile connectivity become more prominent in businesses these days.
Across Verticals performs the wireless security assessment to identify weaknesses and known vulnerabilities on the wireless network, such as below:
- Weak Protocols
- Default or weak administrative credentials
- Mis-association attack potential
- Dis-association attack potential (e.g. DoS attacks)
- Evil Twin attack potential (Honeypot)
- Unauthorized access points (Rogue Access Point, Ad-Hoc Connections)
- WPA Enterprise misconfigurations
- Client Station Probe information disclosure
Phishing Attack Assessment
Did you know that “a comprehensive analysis from IBM in 2023 revealed that 16% of company data breaches directly resulted from a phishing attack?” This clearly shows how vulnerable our systems can be to phishing attacks. A phishing attack assessment is a great way to test how vulnerable your organization is to socially engineered attacks.
For phishing alone, the attackers can deploy numerous different tactics constantly confusing users. By simulating phishing attacks, we can help your organization identify those who easily fall victim to these attacks and weak points that are commonly targeted before we strengthen your defenses.
Since phishing attacks mostly target employees as an entry point, it is important to conduct regular training to educate your organization’s employees to be more conscious of these attacks. Our phishing assessment may also include security awareness training to raise awareness and help your employees identify key indicators or phishing attempts and how to avoid them.
Through regular assessments, your organization can stay ahead of evolving threats and ensure that your human defenses are as strong as your technical ones.
DDOS Testing
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks target vulnerabilities within your organization’s systems, networks, and servers. These vulnerabilities function as an access point to hackers as they start flooding your application with an overwhelming amount of traffic using multiple compromised systems. This causes your application to be inaccessible to users who are authorized to get through.
DDoS penetration testing is carried out to identify and fix those vulnerabilities or access points that attackers target so they can’t be exploited. This test helps businesses understand how their systems function under extremely stressful conditions and the necessary steps to improve them.
This test is essential for businesses because DDoS attacks can cause significant downtime and financial losses. Companies would have to deal with having annoyed customers, losing sales, reduced employee productivity, and a damaged brand reputation if attackers can easily target and exploit your applications.
With cyberattacks only getting more creative, DDoS testing has become a vital component of every organization’s cybersecurity strategy. To protect the integrity of your systems and ensure uninterrupted business operations, Across Verticals offers our expertise for DDoS testing.
Intelligence-Led Penetration Testing
Intelligence-led penetration testing is different from traditional penetration testing. It is an approach where our testing team utilizes threat intelligence to perform the testing campaign against your organization’s critical systems such as payment gateways, trading platforms, customer databases, healthcare information systems, etc.
Using threat intelligence, we will analyze your system’s business and technical functionality and we will imitate advanced real-life attack techniques that cater to your environment. This type of penetration testing is tailored to real-world threats, allowing us to conduct much more precise evaluations of how attackers target and exploit different industries.
Across Verticals is qualified as a CREST Certified Simulated Attack Specialist, which endorses our expertise in performing intelligence-led penetrating testing assessments. With this service, your organization can assess its security teams’ effectiveness in detecting, responding to, and managing advanced cyberattacks in real time.
Our methodology includes system discovery, surveillance, threat modeling, risk analysis, attack simulation, and reporting of findings.
RED/PURPLE/BLUE Team
In cybersecurity, we have a team of cyber defenders who are highly skilled and contribute to strengthening your security systems. These teams have their own set of skills and are targeted to focus on different aspects of securing your organization. This triad of cyber specialists is the Red, Blue, and Purple team.
The Red Team is a group of highly skilled professionals whose job is to break into your systems – legally. These ethical hackers (also known as penetration testers) simulate real-world attacks, exposing your system’s vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Their goal is to test your defenses from every angle ensuring that no threat goes undetected.
While the Red Team is on the offensive, the Blue Team stands guard. These are your cybersecurity specialists, system administrators, and incident responders. They monitor, detect, and neutralize threats in real time. They function as your security immune system that constantly works on adapting to new and evolving threats.
When Red and Blue collide, you get Purple. The Purple Team actively works on facilitating collaboration between offensive and defensive units, ensuring that the Blue Team effectively implements lessons learned from the Red Team’s exercises. They work as a middleman between the Red and Blue Team helping them analyze and translate data, document changes that have been made, best approaches and references, and mediate communication between both teams too.
At Across Verticals our teams are trained to provide immense expertise to organizations when crafting a tailored cybersecurity strategy for their business while also focusing on strengthening their security posture. This collaborative approach is not only a more reasonable approach but it is extremely extensive as well because no stones are left unturned.
Configuration review
Did you know that misconfigured systems are a common cause of data breaches and security issues because it is commonly overlooked? A configuration review is a detailed assessment of your organization’s IT systems, such as servers, firewalls, databases, cloud environments, and network devices.
Even small businesses that use programs such as email servers and content management systems like Shopify and WordPress can fall victim to a data breach if their configurations aren’t up to date.
Across Verticals conducts configuration reviews to help your organization identify misconfigurations and outdated settings. It also verifies that your systems have been set up correctly and are compliant with the industry’s necessary regulations. Flaws or errors in any of these aspects result in vulnerabilities that can be potentially exploited by hackers.
This is why proper and regular configuration reviews are crucial for your business in an era where cyber threats are only evolving and increasing. Besides strengthening your system’s security posture, a properly configured system also improves the overall performance and efficiency of your system. And you know what they say, efficient systems result in an efficient workplace.
Critical Infrastructure Security
Critical Infrastructure Security is the shield that guards the vital systems and assets crucial for our nation’s functioning. It’s not just about firewalls and surveillance cameras; it’s a comprehensive approach to protecting the pillars that hold our daily lives together which includes but is not limited to power grids, water treatment facilities, healthcare systems, financial institutions, telecommunications, and more.
The security of these systems is a non-negotiable as a breach in any of these sectors could trigger a chain reaction of more breaches. Additionally, downtime in these sectors could cause a significant financial loss as it affects the overall operations of these infrastructures that are used almost 24/7 by end-users.
Across Verticals’ expertise in conducting this assessment ensures that your organization complies with the highest industry standards and constantly adapts to new threats in real time. We are focused on providing you with tailored solutions that focus on fortifying your organization’s resilience and creating a shield that bends but never breaks.
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