Penetration Testing

What is "Penetration Testing"?

Penetration testing, often referred to as pen testing or ethical hacking, is a cybersecurity practice designed to identify and address vulnerabilities in computer systems, networks, or applications. By simulating real-world attacks, penetration testers assess how well a system can withstand unauthorized attempts to gain access to sensitive data or disrupt operations.

Why you need Penetration Testing

Data Breaches Are Increasing

In 2005, there were 157 reported data breaches, exposing 66.9 million records. By 2020, those numbers had skyrocketed to 11,476 breaches, compromising an astonishing 1.66 billion records. This dramatic increase highlights the growing scale and frequency of cyberattacks, emphasizing the urgent need for robust cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive data.

Small Businesses are Targets

Small businesses, often targeted due to limited cybersecurity, face growing threats, with 61% experiencing cyberattacks annually. The average attack costs $2.2 million, making recovery difficult and underscoring the need for stronger protections.

Harden Your Defenses

Penetration testing simulates real-world attacks to uncover and fix vulnerabilities in systems, networks, and applications. It strengthens defenses against cyber threats, reduces the risk of costly breaches, and helps ensure compliance with security standards.

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What are the benefits Penetration Testing?

Penetration tests allow organizations to assess their cybersecurity posture based on realistic attack scenarios, which enables them to address issues that would be overlooked if they followed a solely defensive approach.

Demonstrate real-world risk by simulating a malicious threat actor and reveal crucial security flaws.
Provide businesses with remediation strategies to mitigate this risk.
Evaluate current security detection and monitoring controls to expose issues beyond the scope of vulnerability assessments.
Understand how attackers target their most confidential/sensitive data

Using the results of a penetration test, your organization can identify ways to protect its most valuable data by reducing the number of attack vectors and accessible paths to sensitive resources and systems.

The Value We Add

Network Penetration Testing will provide your business the assurance it needs to identify new ways that attackers will use to exploit and compromise sensitive data.

Our penetration testing service allows your business to perform ongoing security assessments of your environment without the challenges of traditional security assessments. These challenges include high costs, lack of flexibility in scheduling, long turnaround on reports, lack of comprehensiveness, and labor-intensive security assessments. By addressing these concerns, we help you add offensive security to strengthen your defenses as well as improve your detection and monitoring controls.

PDC Technology, Inc. provides your team with a dashboard that allows them to track the penetration test and its activities in real-time. As more issues are identified and more information about the network is learned, information within the portal is updated to reflect the latest information, activities, and security threats identified from our cybersecurity team.

Why use us for Penetration Testing?

We make Penetration Testing More Affordable:

We deploy the latest technology that helps our team perform penetration testing more efficiently and we pass those savings to bring you pentesting at an affordable cost.
More penetration tests without breaking the bank.

We make Penetration Testing More Valuable:

Email and SMS notifications to stay in the loop during the penetration test
Real-time tracking of attacks and findings
Reports are available within 24 hours after a penetration test is complete.

We make Penetration Testing More Frequent:

Move beyond compliance and meet industry best practices
Perform a penetration test whenever and however often you want.
Stay in the know rather than hope for the best

Are you going to hack my network?

No, PDC Technology does NOT engage in any malicious activity. Our approach is completely "ethical" in nature with our goal being to test the strength of your network defenses and provide details about how an attacker could cause disruptions to your business and network.

How do you do perform this Penetration Test?

We keep our tools and methods confidential. However, security professionals and hackers often use the same network & security tools to detect vulnerabilities on a network. In fact, most tools used by hackers were designed by security professionals to test their network security for vulnerabilities. At PDC Technology, we only use the tools to discover these vulnerabilities to prove what "could be done" if an attacker was to gain access to your network.

What kind of reports will you provide us?

The Executive Reports we provide are intended for high-level overview with C-Level Executives, Business Owners, etc. Our Technical Reports are extremely detailed in nature and provide your IT team and/or MSP with the necessary to correct these vulnerabilities before they can be used against you by a real Threat Actor (hacker).

Do you need to support my network in order for you to provide Penetration Testing?

No, PDC Technology does not need to be your MSP or IT Service Provider in order to provide this service. We often work with business owners who have great relationships with their current service provider, but who still wish to have a trusted 3rd party to test the strength of the security on their network.

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