External network penetration testing
Your internet-facing assets, sensitive data, clouds, and IoT devices are at risk of attack. Our external penetration testing service identifies security gaps, provides you with actionable guidance to improve your network security, and helps meet compliance requirements.
External network penetration
testing benefits
External network penetration testing reduces risk and improves network security. Your company faces opportunistic and targeted attacks against your internet-facing assets. Exposed systems and web applications change constantly, and cloud adoption expands the attack surface. Our approach to external network penetration testing enumerates your exposures, identifies critical vulnerabilities, and exploits them using the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by real-world threat actors.
During our External Network Penetration Testing, NetSPI identifies security vulnerabilities, such as patch, configuration, and code issues at the network, system, and application layers. This network security testing service provides actionable recommendations for remediation and identifies ways to improve your network security program.
The value of an external network penetration test
Scanning internet-facing network resources is a high priority, but a complete security assessment of the hardness of your external network requires more steps. Through an external pentest, you can:
- Discover all the internet-facing assets a threat actor could find as potential entry points into your network
- Identify more attack surfaces exposed by cloud and federated services
- Identify known and common vulnerabilities on internet-facing systems and web applications
- Identify confidential data exposures on publicly available resources
- Identify vulnerabilities that can be chained together to obtain unauthorized access to systems, applications, and sensitive data
- Remove false positives by verifying findings through manual penetration testing techniques
- Receive actionable guidance to remediate the verified vulnerabilities
What does NetSPI test for?
- Injection
- Broken authentication
- Sensitive data exposure
- XML external entities (XXE)
- Broken access control
- Security misconfiguration
- Cross-site scripting (XSS)
- Insecure deserialization
- Components with known vulnerabilities
- Insufficient logging and monitoring
External network pentests and attack surface management
External network penetration testing and attack surface management are related but distinct proactive security measures. NeSPI ASM provides coverage in-between external network testing and enables teams to focus their deep dive external network tests on the assets that matter most to them. They’re better together.
You deserve The NetSPI Advantage
Security experts
- 250+ pentesters
- Employed, not outsourced
- Domain expertise
Intelligent process
- Programmatic approach
- Strategic guidance
- Delivery management team
Advanced technology
- Consistent quality
- Deep visibility
- Transparent results
