Wireless Penetration Testing

Identify weaknesses, vulnerabilities and architectural flaws that would allow attackers to obtain sensitive information via a wireless solution.

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 unauthorised access, data breaches, and other security threats by simulating real-world attacks, ensuring that wireless networks are secure and that sensitive information is protected.

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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 organisation’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?

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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 unauthorised 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 organisation's defensive capabilities.

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Gain Real-World

Insight into attacks improve your incident response to an attack by understanding how an attack could take place in your network.

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Guide Future Investment

Identifying security weaknesses helps you prioritise 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 organisation in reducing risk and meeting regulatory demands.

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How we conduct a Wireless Penetration Test

Digital Waves

 

  • We begin our assessments by detecting WiFi networks through signal leakage and wireless fingerprinting, and then testing for network penetration opportunities. 
  • We also analyse 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 organisation. 
  • Provide education, awareness and training on risk management to the organisation. 
  • Standardise risk management processes for third-party suppliers. 
  • Help organisations to manage and pragmatically reduce risk.

Cyber security risk management is the process of identifying, assessing, and responding to risks posed by cyber threats. The goal of cyber security risk management is to protect organisational assets and information. This includes protecting systems and networks from malware and other malicious software, as well as ensuring that data is not lost or corrupted. In addition, cyber security risk management also seeks to prevent disruptions to business operations and to ensure the continuity of critical services.  

This will be detailed in the scope of work and depend on the required deliverables and outcomes, but often includes access documentation and to the relevant teams and stakeholders within the organisation. This helps to refine the risk management process, understanding, roles and responsibilities and treatment plans. Access to information about systems in scope or any existing risk material – such as reports or assessments will help inform the engagement.  

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 organisations to mature and continue risk management practices independently.  

Ideally an organisation will have an asset inventory, existing risk assessment and risk management processes and a previous risk assessment. We appreciate that organisations 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 organisations reasons for focusing on risk management (e.g to support an ISO 27001 implementation or new business opportunity). 

Why Us?

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Awards

Our team have won numerous industry awards, including ‘Best Security Company of the Year' at the Cyber Security Awards 2023 and 'Best Cyber Security Company Europe' at the Cyber Security Awards 2022.

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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.

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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.

Accreditations and Certifications

We hold the most NCSC assured services of any cyber security services provider. Our cyber security consultants and services are globally recognised for meeting the highest standards of accreditation and have leading industry certifications. 

Accreditations - NCSC