Penetration Testing

A Winmill Penetration Test

The best way to know how intruders will attack your systems is to simulate a real-world attack under controlled conditions. This allows you to pinpoint actual vulnerabilities from the perspective of a motivated attacker. And most importantly, a penetration test will also tell you how to fix the problems.

Includes:

Executive Summary Report
Full Technical Report
Remediation Action Plan
Retest: Validation of Remediation

Key Benefits of Winmill Penetration Testing

Complete View Of Vulnerabilities

Clients receive a prioritized list of issues, based on the exploitability and impact of each finding using an industry-standard ranking process.

Regulatory Compliance (ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST)

The detailed reports generated after penetration testing help to avoid fines for non-compliance and demonstrate due diligence to auditors by maintaining required security controls.

Avoiding The Cost of System Downtime

Our team provides specific guidance and recommendations to avoid financial pitfalls by identifying and addressing risks before attacks or security breaches occur.

Ensuring Stability of New Assets

We work with many organizations that rapidly develop and adopt new applications and infrastructure. Regular penetration testing gives stakeholders confidence that new assets and upgrades are not introducing new security flaws.

Why Choose Winmill As Your Penetration Assessment Partner

Extensive Knowledge & Experience

Our team has extensive experience in penetration testing of external/ internal networks, web applications, application infrastructure, and APIs. We are also experienced in social engineering attacks such as physical security and phishing campaigns. We have performed penetration testing for companies in healthcare, financial services, telecom, energy, and other industries.

High-Quality Reports

Penetration assessments are always peer-reviewed and edited by professional technical writers before delivery, resulting in high-quality reports. In addition to comprehensive technical details, we also provide condensed information security summaries for executive and senior management.

Valuable, Actionable Insights

Our assessments provide valuable, actionable insights into discovered vulnerabilities, potential attack paths, business impact of breaches, and remediation steps. We always include technical details with enough information to reproduce our findings, so that stakeholders can quickly digest actionable information. For every engagement, we offer a complimentary readout call to review our penetration assessment.

Industry Certification

Our team members undergo extensive training, participate as industry thought leaders, and have earned industry certifications including GPEN, GWAPT, OSCP, OSCE, CEH, PMP, CISA, CISSP, and more. To stay one step ahead of attackers and help others do the same, each of our team members devotes over 400 hours per year conducting research and contributing to the security community: publishing articles, participating in conferences, developing custom testing tools, and writing new exploit code.

Our Certifications

The Winmill Process

At Winmill, no two penetration tests are the same. We use the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES) as a baseline to customize our services to your specific requirements. The seven stages of penetration testing as defined by PTES are as follows:

Pre-Engagement Interactions

Intelligence Gathering

Threat Modeling

Vulnerability Analysis

Exploitation

Post-Exploitation

Reporting

Pre-Engagement Interactions

Define project scope, goals, and rules of engagement.

Intelligence Gathering

Perform reconnaissance against a target to gather as much information as possible to be utilized when penetrating the target during the vulnerability assessment and exploitation phases.

Threat Modeling

Analysis of business assets, business processes, threat communities, and threat capabilities to identify the organization’s appetite for risk and prioritization of vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Analysis

Discover flaws in systems and applications which can be leveraged by an attacker. Flows can range from host and server misconfiguration to insecure application design.

Exploitation

Focus solely on establishing access to a system or resource by bypassing security restrictions. The main focus is to identify the main entry point into the organization and to identify high value asset targets.

Post-Exploitation

Determine the value of the compromised machine and maintain control of the machine for later use. Identify and document sensitive data, configuration settings, communications channels, and relationships with other network devices that can be used to gain further access to the network.

Reporting

We report the findings of the Penetration Test. The intended audience are those in charge of oversight and strategic vision of the security program, as well as any members of the organization who may be impacted by the identified/confirmed threats.

Pre-Engagement Interactions

Define project scope, goals, and rules of engagement.

Intelligence Gathering

Perform reconnaissance against a target to gather as much information as possible to be utilized when penetrating the target during the vulnerability assessment and exploitation phases.

Threat Modeling

Analysis of business assets, business processes, threat communities, and threat capabilities to identify the organization’s appetite for risk and prioritization of vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Analysis

Discover flaws in systems and applications which can be leveraged by an attacker. Flows can range from host and server misconfiguration to insecure application design.

Exploitation

Focus solely on establishing access to a system or resource by bypassing security restrictions. The main focus is to identify the main entry point into the organization and to identify high value asset targets.

Post-Exploitation

Determine the value of the compromised machine and maintain control of the machine for later use. Identify and document sensitive data, configuration settings, communications channels, and relationships with other network devices that can be used to gain further access to the network.

Reporting

We report the findings of the Penetration Test. The intended audience are those in charge of oversight and strategic vision of the security program, as well as any members of the organization who may be impacted by the identified/confirmed threats.

Types of Penetration Tests

External Network Penetration Test

We simulate real-world attacks against your Internet-facing network infrastructure, providing a comprehensive analysis of your Internet footprint, exposure level, and threat surface. We conduct vulnerability analysis, risk analysis, root cause analysis, and provide you with exploitation and verification steps for all findings. We include detailed remediation and mitigation instructions to reduce residual risk to an acceptable level and improve your overall security posture.

Internal Penetration Test

An internal network pen test is performed to help gauge what an attacker could achieve with initial access to a network. We mirror insider threats - employees intentionally or unintentionally performing malicious actions. We look for advanced persistent threats (APT) that have obtained a foothold into your network and are compromising other systems by moving laterally in search of high-value targets such as a Domain Controller in an Active Directory environment.

Web Application Penetration Test

We fingerprint and map your web application, identify entry points, and test for input validation against the most common attacks. We conduct vulnerability scans and eliminate false positives through manual testing. We also use industry-standard methodologies such as OWASP Top 10. The black-box pen test establishes the overall risk level and exploitability of the application, and the OWASP assessment verifies the effectiveness of your security controls.

Mobile Application Penetration Test

It’s estimated that 95% of Android applications contain vulnerabilities, even though more than 70% have already undergone some security testing. This is usually due to a lack of a structured approach to mobile testing. We close this gap by performing static analysis and attempting to reverse-engineer the application; performing dynamic analysis of the comm subsystem; and identifying insecure platform interactions through dynamic analysis of the application’s behavior.

IOT / Device Penetration Test

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects—devices, vehicles, buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity—that enables these objects to collect and exchange data. We enumerate the device’s attack surface, analyze the firmware, verify the security of over-the-air updates, and test the device against the most common attack vectors in the IOT OWASP Top 10.

Cloud Security Testing

We assess your cloud infrastructure against OWASP Cloud Security Top 10 & more. Engagements are tailored to any cloud service provider, environment size, implementation, or hybrid architecture. We test for issues in microservices, in-memory data stores, cloud files, serverless functions, Kubernetes meshes, and containers. We assess the security status of policies, cloud architecture, governance, your ability to manage defenses and react as situations change.