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Penetration Testing Services

Assess the security of your organization's network from an internal and external perspective by completing a penetration test with Bridewell’s highly certified and experienced offensive security experts.
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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.

Service Summary

Our consultants are accredited by all major industry bodies and have extensive experience using multiple manual and automated enumeration techniques to systematically compromise systems and provide remediation advice. 

Bridewell’s ethical hackers are capable of testing infrastructure, networks, devices, and people using customized approaches that are tailored on an individual basis to meet the needs of any sector or industry. Having completed assessments for organizations of any size and sector, we are a trusted partner for many of the UK’s leading critical national infrastructure.  

Our assessments can test people, process, and procedures as well as technological controls.

None of our assessments are ‘out-of-the-box’; Bridewell collaborates with every client to develop a framework that assesses specific areas of concern in line with business objectives.

Bridewell have worked with clients in some of the most highly regulated and critical industries and understand the unique business challenges and risks faced by these sectors.

Bridewell is accredited by CREST, the OSCP, Zeropoint Security CRTOs, are Tiger-certified, and possess Certified Cyber Security Consultancy status with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).

After completing an engagement, Bridewell will collaborate with your internal security team to enhance your cyber defences and resolve any vulnerabilities that were found.

Bridewell’s assessments are goal-oriented and accurately simulate the tools, tactics and procedures that would be used by a real-world attacker.

Key Challenges Addressed

 

Organizations 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 organizations 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 organization, either through direct financial theft or through the costs of responding to and recovering from a successful cyber attack.

Pen testing can help organizations identify and address vulnerabilities before an attacker can exploit them, thereby reducing risk and securing their business. This also supports compliance through helping an organization meet regulatory requirements by relevant industry bodies (such as the PCI DSS). 

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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 organization's infrastructure, incorporates lesser-known attacks and vulnerabilities, and considers business-impact of a potential breach.

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All our engagements are tailored to support the specific requirements and objectives of your organization. This generally aligns with the following process:

To initiate the project, Bridewell will work with key stakeholders in your organization to understand your needs. During this phase, our consultants will establish the scope and timescale of the engagement, contact any of your third parties and key contacts, and ensure all legal aspects are covered.  

Once the scope is agreed, we will conduct the assessment while following industry recognized practices such as the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST) and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).  

If Bridewell identify any critical issues, we will inform you immediately. The assessment phase can be completed on your premises or remotely, dependent on your requirements and the technical components and environment being assessed. Our tests are open and transparent and you are able to watch our findings in real time on our secure portal. 

Once the test has concluded, Bridewell will compile all collated evidence from the test and develop a report which includes full details of the assessment, the findings and specific remedial guidance to address the findings. Our reports are written in easy-to-understand language that can be used by both executive and/ or technical audiences. We can also provide redacted content relevant to your clients (if requested). 

Bridewell will subsequently work with your organisation to remediate any vulnerabilities or issues identified. Our consultants will recommend and implement vulnerability management solutions, which can support you with ongoing identification, risk quantification and remediation of vulnerabilities. 

We are vendor neutral as an organization but have a vast level of experience in many industry and open-source products to suit individual client requirements. We also have a team of engineers that can support remedial if additional resource or expertise is required.  

Following implementation, Bridewell has a suite of additional services to identify threats and vulnerabilities on a continuous basis. For example, providing recurring penetration tests on a regular basis or our vulnerability management service.  

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