Internal Infrastructure Testing

Internal Infrastructure penetration testing is ethical hacking of the internal Windows (usually) network infrastructure that belongs to an organisation. The objectives of this penetration testing service are:

• Identify unpatched systems
• Identify insecure systems and services
• Take control of workstations or servers on the network
• To compromise staff user accounts
• Intercept encrypted passwords on the network and attempt to crack them
• Attempt to brute force accounts for network services, such as databases or web services
• To compromise privileged accounts such as domain administrators
• Attempt to access sensitive or mission-critical information
• Demonstrate it is possible to gain a foothold in the network and remain there
• Eavesdrop on sensitive network communications

These are the exact actions a real-world attacker will carry out once they have gained initial access to your internal network.

A note on COVID-19: We are able to perform internal infrastructure remotely, without requiring a consultant to come to your premises. We will provide details of this during the booking process.

When an attacker is targeting an organisation, their ultimate aim is to gain access to the internal network of that organisation. They will attempt to do so by attacking the perimeter of the business, or by using social engineering attacks such as phishing.

Once an attacker has an initial foothold in the internal network, they will typically attempt to find and compromise the organisation’s ‘crown jewels’; whatever data or assets you have that are most valuable to your organisation. Attackers do this by traversing across the network, compromising various accounts and machines, gradually gaining deeper and deeper access until they have reached their goal.

The purpose of an internal infrastructure pentest is to determine how well protected your network is against attackers in this initial ‘foothold’ position, and how easy or otherwise it is for them to navigate through the network and steal your crown jewels, or take control of your domain.

The benefit of this kind of test is that our testers will find these holes in your networks and systems, they will discover the paths to your crown jewels in a safe and controlled manner, so that you can fix the weaknesses before the bad guys find them.

You will learn a lot from the results of one of our internal pentests. Here’s what we’ll give you:

• A detailed narrative of how our testers combined vulnerabilities, navigated and compromised your network
• Details on the main vulnerabilities we found in the network
• Details on any weak passwords we cracked during the test
• Details on all service misconfigurations
• And most importantly, detailed information on how to fix what we found, to stop real-life attackers from breaching the network

Booking one of our penetration testing services couldn’t be simpler. There are no phone calls or emails needed, all it takes is for you to answer two quick questions and we’ll get you onto our industry-leading online platform.

From here, we’ll have the ability to provide you with an instant online quote for your required service.

We will begin your chosen penetration testing service on the date selected by you and begin reporting our findings as and when we discover them. There is no waiting around for weeks for these to come through, we’ll provide you with the information when we have it ourselves.