Testing and Securing Your Most Critical Assets
Our penetration testing services help Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) organisations identify, test and secure their most critical IT and OT systems.
All our engagements are tailored to provide a realistic simulation of how bad actors may target your organisation, while considering any specialist systems or equipment you may use.
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What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing employs a range of strategies to assess the strength and security of an organisation’s network from both internal and external perspectives, safeguarding sensitive data and systems. This includes simulated cyber-attacks, OSINT, phishing assessments, and more.
Bridewell’s highly accredited security experts deliver penetration testing services tailored to realistically simulate how bad actors may target your organisation, while considering any specialist systems or equipment you use.
Our Penetration Testing Services
We listen to our clients and seek to understand the unique business drivers and objectives of the organisation and the individuals within them. This allows us to develop the most appropriate approach, framework and team which culminates in an outcome driven approach that goes beyond just delivering the framework and builds a trusted relationship.
The Benefits of our Cyber Security Frameworks
A Complete Evaluation of Your Infrastructure
The assessment provides a true validation of your current defensive practices and guidance on improving detection and response capabilities.
A Modular, Tailored Approach
Bridewell doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all approach to testing, and will customise the engagement dependent on your specific objectives (e.g. active directory assessment, password reviews, firewall reviews, device reviews).
Targeted and Prioritised Remediation Actions
Increase your defensive capabilities simply and at pace with the guidance of our penetration testing experts.
Improve Your Security Investment
Validate your current software configuration and work with Bridewell to optimise your configuration and streamline maintenance for the highest level of protection and best return on investment.
Key Challenges Addressed
Organisations that don’t regularly perform penetration testing often face challenges in protecting sensitive data and systems, maintaining compliance and customer trust, and reducing the risk of a successful cyber attack.
Penetration testing – or pen testing – helps organisations identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to access sensitive data, such as customer information or financial records. These vulnerabilities can also result in financial losses for an organisation, either through direct financial theft or through the costs of responding to and recovering from a successful cyber attack.
Pen testing can help organisations identify and address vulnerabilities before an attacker can exploit them, thereby reducing risk and securing their business. This also supports compliance through helping an organisaiton meet regulatory requirements by relevant industry bodies (such as the PCI DSS).
How It Works
Bridewell’s approach to penetration testing incorporates advanced remote testing solutions.
As a result, there’s no need for Bridewell personnel to be on-site unless specifically requested or desired by the customer, which can reduce potential overheads for the client as there is no requirement for dedicated space and support for on-site personnel.
Our penetration testing team consists of ex-sysadmins, developers, network engineers and system architects who bring years of experience developing and securing environments.
This ensures our assessment considers all aspects of your organisation’s infrastructure, incorporates lesser-known attacks and vulnerabilities, and considers business-impact of a potential breach.
Penetration Testing Process
All our engagements are tailored to support the specific requirements and objectives of your organisation. This generally aligns with the following process:
Customer Case Studies
Engaging with Bridewell
By taking an adaptive, customer first approach, we provide trusted services that deliver outcome focused results.
Understand
We listen and learn about your business challenges, goals and ambitions, strategic drivers and culture.
Assess
We assess your current risk position relative to your needs and goals, and develop a roadmap for optimising your cyber-security.
Design
We design solutions, processes and strategies that allow you to achieve the desired state of security and effectiveness.
Optimise
We use our agile yet focused methodology to evolve and optimise your solution over time, to maximise value.
Manage
We operate as an extension of your own cyber security team, delivering tangible, value-added cyber security on a 24/7 basis.
Implement
We draw on our experience and expertise to implement the agreed technical solutions, governance, compliance frameworks and migration processes.
Penetration Testing FAQs
Penetration testing (pentesting) is a method for gaining assurance over the vulnerability assessment of your organisation and management process. It’s an authorised and simulated cyber attack conducted by ethical cyber security experts to pressure test and identify vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them.
It’s recommended that pentesting be carried out annually at a minimum, to meet the baseline security standards for compliance with GDPR and other information privacy regulations. However, quarterly and bi-annual testing is preferred for high-risk and highly-regulated industries like healthcare and finance.
Penetration testing isn’t specifically required for ISO 27001 compliance, but it’s highly recommended alongside an ISO 27001 certification as best practice. It’s not specifically demanded, but auditors will expect evidence of effective security controls, making regular testing an important activity.
Vulnerability scans are automated and completed at a frequent, detailed level to identify known security gaps. However, penetration testing is a manual, in-depth simulation of real-world attacks by ethical professionals to exploit vulnerabilities and assess actual risk and impact.
Why Us?
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Awards
Our team have won numerous industry awards, including 'Cyber Business of the Year' at the National Cyber Awards 2024 and 'Best Cyber Security Company of the Year' at the Cyber Security Awards 2023.
Certifications
Our people and services are highly accredited by leading industry bodies including CREST, the NCSC, and more. Our SOC holds extensive accreditations from CREST (including for CSIR and SOC2) and works closely with our cyber consultancy services.
Partnerships
As a Microsoft Partner, we also hold advanced specialisms in Cloud Security and Threat Protection. We’ve also implemented some of the UK’s largest deployments of the Microsoft Security stack, inc. Sentinel, Defender, Purview and more.
