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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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 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
Wireless networks offer incredible flexibility for organisations, giving employees extensive access to data and systems. However, they also act as a very straightforward entry point for cyberattacks. Threats to WiFi networks are unique, and the challenges and risks can be hugely detrimental to an organisation.
Wireless networks, if implemented insecurely, can grant attackers access to internal corporate resources from external locations beyond the physical company premises. There are numerous opportunities for threats to occur in wireless infrastructure.
Wireless penetration testing (pentesting) is a form of ethical hacking that simulates attacks on an organisation's wireless infrastructure, such as access points, encryption protocols and endpoint devices connected to a network wirelessly. It differs from traditional pentesting, which focuses on an organisation’s internal cyber security infrastructure.
Wireless penetration testing can assess the security of multiple radio-based networks, including Wi-Fi (WPA/WPA2/WPA3), Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-Wave and IoT devices. Wireless pentesting primarily focuses on wireless networks and connected client security.
Wireless penetration testing is a comprehensive process that can take between two and five business days for active testing. But with the entire process, including scope and reporting, it can take between one and two weeks. This process can take slightly longer for more complex networks. Smaller sites may take a couple of days, while larger multi-floor assessments can take up to three weeks.
Wireless penetration testing can be carried out in live production environments to identify real-world vulnerabilities that may not be found in an isolated setting. It’s important to note that conducting these tests on live environments requires significant planning and explicit authorisation to avoid disrupting day-to-day operations.
Why Us?
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.
