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We deliver expert cybersecurity services designed to protect, optimise, and future-proof your business, ensuring resilience, compliance & peace of mind in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

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Workstation Testing

Your workstations present an ideal target for real-world attackers as they can provide an access point into your business, provide access to sensitive data, user accounts and are often accessible through multiple methods, inside and outside of your offices.

A number of specific security vulnerabilities are known to impact Windows workstations and other end-user devices, which can result from outdated software, misconfigurations, and the lack of hardening measures.

Our team have over 10 years of expertise focused on security testing practices.

We identify, evaluate and communicate the issues which pose a risk to your business.

We utilise a combination of best practice methodologies alongside years of industry experience

We use tried and tested approaches to identify the issues which present a critical risk to your business and network devices

Our experienced cyber security professionals ensure you stay informed throughout the assessment process.

Through regular communication, scheduled calls, and ongoing support, we ensure you have all the information needed to understand and improve your cyber security posture.

Why Conduct A Security Assessment

Security incidents are often reported to have impacted over half of businesses and lead to costs and impacts which can be difficult to recover from. A security assessment can help to provide assurance to your clients, peace of mind to your business owners, and to proactively address risks.

Multiple compliance standards focus on your cyber security posture and how a business manages information security effectively.

Regular Penetration Testing has become a staple component of compliance requirements, and can be conducted to align with your certification standards, and improve your organisation’s overall reputation for the secure management of information security.

On average, over a hundred new vulnerabilities are disclosed each day, which may affect the security of your systems.

Conducting a penetration test can uncover the vulnerabilities which impact your business and help to identify solutions to improve your security posture.

Cyber Security has become increasingly prevalent as a client, partner and supplier requirement.

Penetration testing can evidence your commitment to cybersecurity, illustrate your proactive approach to security and demonstrate a seriousness to information security best practices, helping to maintain the confidence of existing clients and win new business.

Where a cyber security incident does occur, there are often several associated costs involved, such as the time and resources required for recovery, and any relevant fines and penalties which may be levied against your business for not managing information security effectively.

Conducting a penetration test can identify the areas of risk within your business and help to produce a cost-effective approach and targeted strategy to address these security weaknesses.

Benefits of A Security Assessment

Workstation penetration tests offer a range of benefits for your business to help improve hardening measures and your overall security posture, gaining a detailed knowledge of the real-world threats which can impact your business.

Conducting a security assessment can highlight the risks which attackers may use to steal user credentials and gain access to your business-critical systems.

This allows proactive steps to be taken to improve cyber security and resolve potential vulnerabilities.

Through conducting security tests your teams can gain insight into how an insecure configuration and device implementation can introduce vulnerabilities into your systems, and how these compromises can lead to additional cyber attacks.

This information can be used to guide improvements to enhance your cyber security.

The cost of a cyber security incident can quickly escalate due to downtime, reputational impacts, and information security fines. Implementing cyber security measures can also be a costly exercise if not focused on the areas which present a critical business risk.

Conducting a cyber security test, can help to inform a vulnerability and risk management strategy, reducing the risk of an incident and targeting cyber security measures where needed.

Our Approach

We deliver expert cybersecurity services designed to protect, optimise, and future-proof your business, ensuring resilience, compliance & peace of mind in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Working alongside our cybersecurity consultants with over a decade of industry experience throughout your entire assessment process, from initial enquiry to project summary.

We provide help, support and guidance to ensure each of your security requirements are met.

Receive updates on your security weaknesses throughout the assessment.

Ensuring you stay informed and are never left in the dark about how your penetration test is progressing.

The specific cyber security concerns your organisation has can vary, and it’s important to our team that your individual concerns and risks are always addressed.

Our penetration testing team work with you to produce and deliver a report which meets your requirements and helps achieve your goals.

Security assessments don’t end with the report. Remediation, reassessments, and vulnerability management strategies all present ongoing challenges to address after a penetration test.

Our team ensure ongoing support is always available to help you address your immediate risks and achieve ongoing cyber security.

Popular Questions

The laptops and desktops commonly used by every business often share many of the same security issues, which the latest evolving cyber threats can target for exploitation.

  • Missing operating system patches often contain security updates which can leave a device vulnerable. In many cases the time between vulnerability identification and automated exploitation can be days. Only checking for security updates on a monthly basis may leave your devices vulnerable to the latest threats.
  • Data at rest encryption is often not implemented for devices, which can be important with the increased prevalence of remote working and mobile devices such as phones and laptops. In the event devices are accessed by an attacker, ensuring data is protected is of critical importance.
  • Insecure configuration settings often introduce vulnerabilities into a device or don’t address settings which are insecure by default. Implementing a set of best practice security settings, such as the CIS Benchmarks, can help to strengthen your devices security and improve overall security posture.

Your workstations can be vulnerable in many different ways and can therefore present a range of different risks to a business.

  • A compromised device can be used to gather email addresses and contact information for all of your team, your clients, partners and suppliers. This may then be used for targeted Phishing campaigns which are launched under the context of your own trusted email address.
  • Your workstations often contain a wealth of useful data and information stored within local files or network drives. This could all be compromised by an attacker with device access, leading to sensitive data exposure.
  • Your devices can provide authentication information for your accounts and services, providing an attacker with further access to your business-critical services and escalating a single device compromise to a compromise of your organization as a whole.

Where a security issue does occur, there are several aspects which can impact your business:

  • The time required to recover from a security breach and restore your systems can incur costs such as recruiting people to aid in the recovery and the loss of business during any downtime.
  • The ongoing impacts on your business reputation can impact current and potential clients’ likelihood to work with you, as it can be seen as a security risk.
  • Fines and penalties can be levied against your business where a data breach occurs that impacts client data and personal data.

There are different benefits from both vulnerability scanning and penetration testing and each should be considered and applied for different reasons.

  • Vulnerability scanners and automated tools are useful for speed and are cost-effective, allowing them to be run on a regular basis. This is useful to identify the latest available security updates for known vulnerabilities, and can help maintain your ongoing security.
  • Penetration testing is useful for in-depth assessments, highlighting and contextualising API security vulnerabilities which scanning tools are often not able to identify. This can be useful when conducted on an annual basis, or after significant changes.

An assessment of your devices, for example, a Microsoft Windows operating system, can include a review of a broad range of security settings, such as:

  • Operating System and Software patching, to ensure that all of the latest security updates have been applied.
  • A configuration review of the device, in line with the CIS Benchmarks, evaluating that best practice security settings have been implemented.
  • Assessment of the authentication solutions which are in place, and ensuring secure passwords have been setup for the devices.
  • Analysis of the antivirus software which is in place to ensure security settings are protecting your devices from known malware signatures.
  • A review of the network exposure of your device to determine the software and services which may be exposed by the device when connected to a private or public network.

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