Wireless penetration testing is performed to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in wireless networks, ensuring that unauthorised access, data breaches, and other security threats are mitigated to protect sensitive information.
The Importance of Wireless Penetration Testing
Wireless penetration testing is crucial for identifying and addressing vulnerabilities in WiFi networks. It helps prevent unauthorized access, data breaches, and other security threats by simulating real-world attacks, ensuring that wireless networks are secure and that sensitive information is protected.
What to expect from a Wireless Pen Test by Bridewell
Accurately Simulate Real-Life Attacks
Our assessment replicates the tools, tactics and procedures real-world attackers use in their attacks, offering true insight against specific scenarios.
A Valuable Component of a Wider Assessment
Completing a wireless assessment is a valuable addition within a wider penetration test.
Custom Testing for Targeted Outcomes
Every assessment we deliver is tailored around targeted objectives outlined through a collaborate process that involves key business stakeholders.
Experience Across Sectors
Our penetration testers have experience solving business challenges within critical industries and highly regulated sectors.
A Tailored Approach
We take a tailored approach to risk management that reflects the unique risks inherent to your organization's processes, sector, and risk appetite.
Remediate Common Misconfigurations
The assessment will help address common misconfigurations and exploits such as rogue access points, SSID spoofing; guest Wi-Fi weaknesses; WPA keys and packet injection vulnerabilities; default router setups; poor encryption algorithms; weak passwords; or zero configurations on a Wi-Fi network.
Why is it Worth Conducting a Wireless Penetration Test?
Understand the Security Posture of Your Wireless Networks
Completing an assessment helps you flag security and data vulnerabilities, isolate misconfigured or duplicated wireless networks, detect default wireless routers, and identify unauthorized or rogue access points.
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Clear Guidance and Remediations
Our penetration testers will guide your security team in addressing vulnerabilities and improving your organization's defensive capabilities.
Gain Real-World
Insight into attacks improve your incident response to an attack by understanding how an attack could take place in your network.
Guide Future Investment
Identifying security weaknesses helps you prioritize spending on upgrades and security measures to protect your wireless networks.
Start your Wireless Pen Test Journey
Speak with one of our risk management experts to see how we can support your organization in reducing risk and meeting regulatory demands.
How we conduct a Wireless Penetration Test
- We begin our assessments by detecting WiFi networks through signal leakage and wireless fingerprinting, and then testing for network penetration opportunities.
- We also analyze encryption weaknesses, perform session hijacking, and identify legitimate user credentials. After testing, we provide a detailed report with recommended security improvements.
Wireless Penetration Testing FAQs
- Create or deliver against risk management strategies and programs and define policies.
- Develop and/ or implement risk tolerance guidelines.
- Develop and/ or implement business continuity and resilience plans.
- Interpret Risk Assessments, benchmarking and threat intelligence and apply it to your organization.
- Provide education, awareness and training on risk management to the organization.
- Standardize risk management processes for third-party suppliers.
- Help organizations to manage and pragmatically reduce risk.
The length of the engagement varies depending on the scope, current maturity and requirements. Some clients require days of advice and guidance, others prefer to utilise Bridewell for more in depth analysis, or to reduce the demand on their own resources on a temporary or long term basis.
Risk management is an ongoing process and Bridewell share knowledge, best practices and examples with clients to support organizations to mature and continue risk management practices independently.
Ideally an organization will have an asset inventory, existing risk assessment and risk management processes and a previous risk assessment. We appreciate that organizations operate at different levels of maturity and that not all items might be available or complete.
Allocation of resources internally to support the engagement and risk management process is beneficial, often with communication to the business on the importance of risk management and what is required from staff and teams to support the initiative, along with the organizations reasons for focusing on risk management (e.g to support an ISO 27001 implementation or new business opportunity).
Why Us?
180+ Security Specialists
Our team have diverse experience across sectors and disciplines, and hold accreditations from numerous industry bodies.
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.
