Often the urge to join the e-business revolution means that security considerations are left to the last minute or overlooked entirely causing risk to the organisation. Peapod's Penetration Test Service is designed to allow clients to discover weaknesses in their outward facing servers before they are attacked and to provide the information needed to harden those servers. By using a host of commercial and underground hacking tools and techniques, Peapod's security professionals can simulate an encyclopaedic range of attacks against your servers in order to find out what vulnerabilities exist. The information gathered is assembled into detailed report that will enable you to assess the degree of risk that you face and provide detailed advice on how to go about fixing these vulnerabilities. If needed, Peapod consultants can also carry out the resulting work to harden your systems against attack.
Initial testing is carried out remotely to ascertain exactly what is visible from the Internet.
This is then supplemented by a more detailed testing regime carried out on the customer premises. The results from the raw tests will be taken back to Peapod and analysed by security consultants to eliminate false positive results and to categorise and classify the vulnerabilities found. Unfortunately, many packaged security testing products produce large numbers of so-called vulnerabilities, many of which are irrelevant within the context. Experienced security consultants who are able to sift through these false positive results and concentrate on the real security issues prepare our reports manually. The final report will detail all vulnerabilities but will focus on providing plain-English analysis of the key issues along with detailed advice on what risks they create and how they may be fixed.