This document provides an overview of penetration testing, including its definition, purpose, types, methodology, tools, challenges, and takeaways. Penetration testing involves modeling real-world attacks to find vulnerabilities in a system and then attempting to exploit those vulnerabilities to determine security risks. It is important for identifying flaws that need remediation and assessing an organization's security posture and risk profile. The methodology generally involves planning, reconnaissance, scanning, exploitation, and reporting phases. Challenges include performing comprehensive testing within time and budget constraints and addressing business impact.
VAPT defines the security measures that are supposed to be put in place to address cyber threats. There are plenty of strategies that can be adopted in Pen Testing which include Black Box Pen Test, White Box Pen Text, Hidden Pen Test, Internal Pen Test, and Gray Box Testing. It is mandatory that VAPT is conducted in order to deter cyber-attacks that are on the upsurge daily. These VAPT ranges from Mobile, Network Penetration Testing, and Vulnerability Assessments.
There are many merits to VAPT in your business which include early error detection in program codes which will prevent cyber attacks. Most companies lose billions of dollars due to cyber-attacks. With VAPT, it guarantees that all loopholes are tightened before an intrusion transpires.
Penetration testing reporting and methodologyRashad Aliyev
This paper covering information about Penetration testing methodology, standards reporting formats and comparing reports. Explained problem of Cyber Security experts when they making penetration tests. How they doing current presentations.
We will focus our work in penetration testing methodology reporting form and detailed information how to compare result and related work information.
Understanding Penetration Testing & its Benefits for OrganizationPECB
This topic will cover the most important part related the penetration testing and the importance of its implementation on the organization. Considering it as a good tool for companies to deal with information security vulnerabilities, it is becoming significant part for companies to develop it.
Main point that will be covered:
• Overview of Penetration Testing
• Purpose of Penetration testing and benefits
• What are the Rules of Engagement (White, Black and Grey Box Testing)
• Penetration Testing and Phases
Presenter:
Christie Oso is Managing Principal Information Security consultant and trainer at Intex IT. She is also responsible for Risk Management, Vulnerability Assessment, and Penetration Testing. She holds certification on CISSP, CISM, CEH, ISO 27001 LA, ISO 27005 Risk Manager,
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lyqOJmC94vg
This presentation describes penetration testing with a Who, What, Where, When, and How approach. In the presentation, you may discover the common pitfalls of a bad penetration test and you could identify a better one. You should be able to recognize and differentiate both looking at the methods (attitude) and result.
This presentation will provide an overview of what a penetration test is, why companies pay for them, and what role they play in most IT security programs. It will also include a brief overview of the common skill sets and tools used by today’s security professionals. Finally, it will offer some basic advice for getting started in penetration testing. This should be interesting to aspiring pentesters trying to gain a better understanding of how penetration testing fits into the larger IT security world.
Additional resources can be found in the blog below:
https://www.netspi.com/blog/entryid/140/resources-for-aspiring-penetration-testers
More security blogs by the authors can be found @
https://www.netspi.com/blog/
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Phases of Penetration Testing
Penetration Testing Types
Penetration Testing Tools
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VAPT defines the security measures that are supposed to be put in place to address cyber threats. There are plenty of strategies that can be adopted in Pen Testing which include Black Box Pen Test, White Box Pen Text, Hidden Pen Test, Internal Pen Test, and Gray Box Testing. It is mandatory that VAPT is conducted in order to deter cyber-attacks that are on the upsurge daily. These VAPT ranges from Mobile, Network Penetration Testing, and Vulnerability Assessments.
There are many merits to VAPT in your business which include early error detection in program codes which will prevent cyber attacks. Most companies lose billions of dollars due to cyber-attacks. With VAPT, it guarantees that all loopholes are tightened before an intrusion transpires.
Penetration testing reporting and methodologyRashad Aliyev
This paper covering information about Penetration testing methodology, standards reporting formats and comparing reports. Explained problem of Cyber Security experts when they making penetration tests. How they doing current presentations.
We will focus our work in penetration testing methodology reporting form and detailed information how to compare result and related work information.
Understanding Penetration Testing & its Benefits for OrganizationPECB
This topic will cover the most important part related the penetration testing and the importance of its implementation on the organization. Considering it as a good tool for companies to deal with information security vulnerabilities, it is becoming significant part for companies to develop it.
Main point that will be covered:
• Overview of Penetration Testing
• Purpose of Penetration testing and benefits
• What are the Rules of Engagement (White, Black and Grey Box Testing)
• Penetration Testing and Phases
Presenter:
Christie Oso is Managing Principal Information Security consultant and trainer at Intex IT. She is also responsible for Risk Management, Vulnerability Assessment, and Penetration Testing. She holds certification on CISSP, CISM, CEH, ISO 27001 LA, ISO 27005 Risk Manager,
Link of the recorded session published on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lyqOJmC94vg
This presentation describes penetration testing with a Who, What, Where, When, and How approach. In the presentation, you may discover the common pitfalls of a bad penetration test and you could identify a better one. You should be able to recognize and differentiate both looking at the methods (attitude) and result.
This presentation will provide an overview of what a penetration test is, why companies pay for them, and what role they play in most IT security programs. It will also include a brief overview of the common skill sets and tools used by today’s security professionals. Finally, it will offer some basic advice for getting started in penetration testing. This should be interesting to aspiring pentesters trying to gain a better understanding of how penetration testing fits into the larger IT security world.
Additional resources can be found in the blog below:
https://www.netspi.com/blog/entryid/140/resources-for-aspiring-penetration-testers
More security blogs by the authors can be found @
https://www.netspi.com/blog/
( ** Cyber Security Training: https://www.edureka.co/cybersecurity-certification-training ** )
This Edureka PPT on "Penetration Testing" will help you understand all about penetration testing, its methodologies, and tools. Below is the list of topics covered in this session:
What is Penetration Testing?
Phases of Penetration Testing
Penetration Testing Types
Penetration Testing Tools
How to perform Penetration Testing on Kali Linux?
Cyber Security Playlist: https://bit.ly/2N2jlNN
Cyber Security Blog Series: https://bit.ly/2AuULkP
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What is Application Security?
What is an SQL Injection attack
Demo on SQL Injection
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Introduction to Web Application Penetration TestingAnurag Srivastava
Web Application Pentesting
* Process to check and penetrate the security of a web application or a website
* process involves an active analysis of the application for any weaknesses, technical flaws, or vulnerabilities
* Any security issues that are found will be presented to the system owner, together with an assessment of the impact, a proposal for mitigation or a technical solution.
Introduction to Penetration Testing with a use case of LFI -> Shell. I talk about the mindset required to be a good tester, and show places many testers and automated tools stop and how to go further.
Vulnerability assessment & Penetration testing Basics Mohammed Adam
In these days of widespread Internet usage, security is of prime importance. The almost universal use of mobile and Web applications makes systems vulnerable to cyber attacks. Vulnerability assessment can help identify the loopholes in a system while penetration testing is a proof-of-concept approach to actually explore and exploit a vulnerability.
Introduction of Ethical Hacking, Life cycle of Hacking, Introduction of Penetration testing, Steps in Penetration Testing, Foot printing Module, Scanning Module, Live Demos on Finding Vulnerabilities a) Bypass Authentication b) Sql Injection c) Cross site Scripting d) File upload Vulnerability (Web Server Hacking) Countermeasures of Securing Web applications
Introduction to Web Application Penetration TestingNetsparker
These slides give an introduction to all the different things and stages that make a complete web application penetration test. It starts from the very basics, including how to define a Scope of Engagement.
These slides are part of the course Introduction to Web Application Security and Penetration Testing with Netsparker, which can be found here: https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/introduction-web-application-penetration-testing/
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a perfect example of your 6 weeks summer training ppt. Course-Ethical Hacking , its info and VAPT- Vulnerability Assessment n Penetration testing. about how vulnerability scanning , tools used , cracking password , etc.
Vulnerabilities in modern web applicationsNiyas Nazar
Microsoft powerpoint presentation for BTech academic seminar.This seminar discuses about penetration testing, penetration testing tools, web application vulnerabilities, impact of vulnerabilities and security recommendations.
This Edureka PPT on "Application Security" will help you understand what application security is and measures taken to improve the security of an application often by finding, fixing and preventing security vulnerabilities.
Following are the topics covered in this PPT:
Introduction to Cybersecurity
What is Application Security?
What is an SQL Injection attack
Demo on SQL Injection
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Introduction to Web Application Penetration TestingAnurag Srivastava
Web Application Pentesting
* Process to check and penetrate the security of a web application or a website
* process involves an active analysis of the application for any weaknesses, technical flaws, or vulnerabilities
* Any security issues that are found will be presented to the system owner, together with an assessment of the impact, a proposal for mitigation or a technical solution.
Introduction to Penetration Testing with a use case of LFI -> Shell. I talk about the mindset required to be a good tester, and show places many testers and automated tools stop and how to go further.
Présentation réalisée dans le cadre du Cyber@Hack 2015.
Illustrations par Randall Munroe sous licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 (http://xkcd.com/)
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Enterprise Security / System Integrity
Agenda for Today
• What is Penetration Testing?
– Definition
– Purpose
– Connection to Vulnerabilities/Exploits
– Types of Pen Tests
– Outcomes
• Why Pen Test?
– Regulatory Requirements
– Risk Profile determination
• How to Pen Test?
– Pen Test Methodology
– Reporting
– Penetration Testing Framework and PTES
– Tools - Open Source
– Tools – Commercial
• Challenges
• Takeaways
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Enterprise Security / System Integrity
What is Penetration Testing?
Definition
• Definition = the exact meaning of a word. Despite that,
security testing vendors define their services differently using
the same words, often incorrectly.
• Penetration Test = An approach, modeling tactics of real-
world bad guys, to find vulnerabilities - then under controlled
circumstances, exploit those vulnerabilities and determine
business risk.
• Vulnerability Scan (or Security Assessment) = finding
security vulnerabilities, which may or may not be used to get
in or steal data.
Vulnerability (or Security) Assessment ≠ Penetration Test
Penetration test = focus is on actually getting in and/or
stealing data.
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Enterprise Security / System Integrity
What is Penetration Testing? – continued
Purpose
• The ultimate goal is discovering flaws so that they can be
remediated (applying patches, reconfiguring systems,
altering the architecture, changing processes, etc.).
Connection of Vulnerabilities/Exploits to Risk
• Threat = an actor or agent that may want to or actually can
cause harm to the targeted organization.
• Vulnerability = flaw that an attacker could use to cause
damage.
• Exploit = the vehicle by which the attacker uses a
vulnerability to cause damage to the target system.
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Enterprise Security / System Integrity
What is Penetration Testing? – continued
Connection to Vulnerabilities/Exploits
How this plays together:
Risk is where threat and vulnerability overlap. That is, we have a
risk when our systems have a vulnerability that a given threat can
attack.
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What is Penetration Testing? – continued
Types of Penetration Tests
• Network services test
– Most common – finding target systems on a network.
• Client-Side test
– Designed to find exploit client-side software, such as browsers, media players, doc editing programs, etc.
• Web Application test
– Targets web-based applications in the target environment.
• Remote war dial test
– Looks for modems in the target environment and includes password guessing to attempt connecting.
• Wireless security test
– Targets the physical environment to find unauthorized wireless access points or insecure access points.
• Social engineering test
– Attempts to dupe a user into revealing sensitive information or clicking on a malicious link in an email.
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What is Penetration Testing? – continued
Outcomes
To be successful, need to express our pen test findings in both
business and technical terms.
For any given risk, decision makers may conclude that, for
business purposes, they will accept a given risk identified
during a test, rather than mitigate the associated
vulnerability. In the end, it’s a business decision.
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Why Pen Test?
Regulatory Requirements
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard
(DSS) mandates at least an annual pen test be
performed on the Cardholder Data Environment (CDE),
and/or if significant infrastructure or application
upgrades occur (PCI DSS 11.3).
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Why Pen Test? - continued
Risk Profile determination
The overall objective is to reduce risk by examining the
company’s actual attack surface.
Attack surface = the sum of all potential attack vectors.
Attack vector = any single parameter (that is also vulnerable) that
can be attacked.
EXAMPLE: Networked services like File Transfer Protocol (FTP),
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP) contain unique parameters, each of
which could be exploited if not adequately protected.
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How to Pen Test?
Pen Test Methodology
1. Scoping/Planning/Goal
– Constraints and limitations imposed on the team i.e. Out of scope items,
hardware, IP addresses.
– Constraints, limitations or problems encountered by the team during the actual
test
2. Reconnaissance
– The tester would attempt to gather as much information as possible about the
selected network. Reconnaissance can take two forms i.e. active and passive.
A passive attack is always the best starting point as this would normally defeat
intrusion detection systems and other forms of protection etc. afforded to the
network. This would usually involve trying to discover publicly available
information by utilizing a web browser and visiting newsgroups etc. An active
form would be more intrusive and may show up in audit logs and may take the
form of an attempted DNS zone transfer or a social engineering type of attack.
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How to Pen Test?- continued
Pen Test Methodology
3. Scanning
– By use of vulnerability scanners all discovered hosts would be tested for
vulnerabilities. The result would then be analyzed to determine if there any
vulnerabilities that could be exploited to gain access to a target host on a
network.
4. Exploitation
– By use of published exploits or weaknesses found in applications, operating
system and services, access would then be attempted. This may be done
surreptitiously or by more brute force methods. An example of this would be
the use of exploit engines i.e. Metasploit or password cracking tools such as
John the Ripper.
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How to Pen Test? - continued
Pen Test Methodology
5. (optional) Covering Tracks
– The ability to erase logs that may have detected the testing teams
attempts to access the network should ideally not be possible. These
logs are the first piece of evidence that may prove that a possible
breach of company security has occurred and should be protected at
all costs. An attempt to erase or alter these logs should prove
unsuccessful to ensure that if a malicious attacker did in fact get
access to the network then their every movement would be recorded.
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How to Pen Test? - continued
Reporting
Reporting is crucial for sharing the findings of the
penetration test. It should not just be a “cut & paste”
process from the tool. It must have some business
impact analysis as well as quantify the business risk of
the findings.
Reports are not for impressing other pen testers. Its for
operations personnel to understand the risks and help
them mitigate the vulnerabilities.
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How to Pen Test? - continued
Penetration Testing Framework and PTES
• Open-source testing methodologies exist:
– Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual
(OSSTMM)
– Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
– Penetration Testing Framework
(www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk/Penetration%20Test.ht
ml)
– Penetration Testing Execution Standard (http://pentest-
standard.org/index.php/Main_Page)
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How to Pen Test? - continued
Tools - Open Source
• Nessus (now commercial version by Tenable Security)
• Metasploit (now owned by Rapid7)
• Backtrack CD (discontinued Linux distro. with open-
source security tools – now Kali Linux)
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How to Pen Test? - continued
Tools - Commercial
• Immunity CANVAS Pro
• WebInspect - HP SPI Dynamics
• CORE IMPACT & CORE Insight Enterprise
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Challenges
Bad (RCPT) vs. Good Pen Testing
Really Crappy Pen Test (RCPT) - not thoroughly testing
all attributes of the attack surface, or even worse, using
vulnerability scan results and calling it a penetration
test.
A good pen test is comprehensive and looks at threat
levels at least equal to those likely to be faced in the
wild and performs testing at that level.
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Challenges - continued
Skill level
Real pen testers are highly skilled professional, usually
certified to show competency, use formalized
methodology, and respect the business requirements of
the company.
They view pen testing as a logical, analytical process. It
is not just the output product of an automated scanner
(like the ones discussed earlier).
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Challenges - continued
Potential adverse impacts
The goal of a penetration test is not
to just cause all sorts of damage and
expect that someone else gets to
clean up the mess.
The goal is to attempt to achieve the objective as safely
and with as little impact as possible. However, if you do
pen testing long enough, at some point you will “knock
something over” (a system may go unresponsive), so
proper Change Management is crucial in order to
account for unexpected results.
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Challenges - continued
Time/Money constraints
Penetration tests are inherently constrained by time
and/or financial resources. For a specific engagement,
scoping of the pen test is crucial to success.
Also to be taken into consideration, is the intensity of
the testing to mimic the hacker level most concerning
(script kiddie, skilled hacker, and elite hacker).
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Challenges - continued
Failure to address Business impact
A good pen test not only validates identified
vulnerabilities, but also discusses the business impact if
the vulnerabilities are exploited.
In addition, there should also be recommendations on
how to effectively remediate those verified
vulnerabilities.
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Takeaways
There are many reasons to conduct a penetration
test:
• Compliance: Security standards like PCI require at least
annual penetration testing.
• Measuring Risk: This can inform management where
weaknesses are present and the level of risk they
present.
• Diligence: Testing to determine if software developed
internally using a Software Development Life Cycle
(SDLC) has met secure development practices and
hasn’t presented opportunities to be attacked and
exploited.