Maintain control over the security and up-time of your industrial connected equipment.
Penetration Testing
for Manufacturing Companies
Optimizing your factory means connectivity with your network. With connectivity ultimately vulnerability. Running an effective pen test done by real humans will expose weakness that can lead to a breach in your factory floor equipment or in a control room. We provide pen testing, network vulnerability mapping, exploitation attempts, social engineering, and real-time cyber threat analysis for Manufacturing Companies in North America and the Caribbean.
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What does a pen test for a Manufacturing Company entail?
Penetration testing involves testing a company’s network by ethically hacking into it, ensuring no outside or inside threats evade the organization’s cyber security initiatives, protocols or processes. It also includes security threats, like social engineering. Social engineering can exploit human psychology. Traditional attacks sometime use advanced software or utilize low-tech initiatives like email phishing or even by planting an infected hardware device on an employee.
What Type of Pen Test Does Your Manufacturing Company Need?
In general, there are two categories of penetration testing or “pen test” that Manufacturing Companies usually require: customer-driven / compliance-driven, OR penetration tests that attempt to exploit people, process or technology with the objective of breaking into the network and gaining access to digital assets.
Scenario 1 Pen Testing
Customer-Driven or Compliance-Driven
Example: “We have a web application and one of our biggest clients need us to get a 3rd party pen test performed for their risk team”.
This scenario actually describes a vulnerability assessment, followed by a blend of automated and manual pen testing that looks for obvious configuration flaws or vulnerabilities that can be exploited without too much effort. The main goal is to produce a remediation report on the issues that let you harden your website, application or network. This can also be considered a security audit of sorts, particularly when a specific set of metrics are used for compliance measurement (e.g. PCI-DSS compliance) or if we are looking at analyzing the running configuration of a device. CyberHunter will produce a Penetration Test Report and depending on the needs, couple this with an OWASP report (for web apps), a PCI Compliance report (QSA-Certified or Standard), or an ISO27001/2 report for standard-specific requirements.
Scenario 2 Pen Testing
Breach the Network (Red Team Exercise)
Example: “We are looking to test and improve our overall cybersecurity posture and we need an ethical hacker to try to break into our network.”
This scenario describes a more traditional penetration test. This type of pen test (also called a Red Team exercise) simulates an adversarial role and is a far more realistic way to test the security readiness of an organization. This testing covers exploitation attempts against People, Process, and Technology. It can involve a significant amount of social engineering and usually triggers active security controls and countermeasures inside the operating environment. These tests will additionally assess internal Blue Team (the defensive team) responsiveness and/or process in the event of an intrusion detection.
Pricing for a Type#2 Penetration Test (Red Team Exercise) is dependent upon the objectives, methodologies used, and duration of the exercise. Typical penetration testing durations are 3-4 weeks or more, depending on scope, as they can involve significant reconnaissance efforts and exploitation creation.
Manufacturers Need to Leverage Cyber Security Technology and Get Regular Penetration Tests – Starting Now
PENETRATION TESTING FOR Manufacturing Companies
The initial phase of a penetration test is to take all the reconnaissance data, enumerated system data and every one of the identified theoretical vulnerabilities and attempt to exploit them the same way a hacker would. This is the Penetration Test or Pen Test and it is where all those theoretical weaknesses get exercised to see if there is way into the network or web application.
Defining Goals
What do you want to achieve by getting a pen test?
Following The Data
What is your most sensitive data? financial data? Sensitive company documents?
Use real people
Your cyber security’s should use real human testers and should act like real hackers.
Establish parameters
Establish parameters that define what can and cannot be done during the simulation.
Test Evidence and Reporting
The following flavors of testing and reporting are available from CyberHunter:
- Technical Detailed Report
- Executive Briefing
- Remediation Report
- MS Patch Reports
- PCI Compliance
- HIPAA
- SOX
- ISO 27001/2
- OWASP
- Center for Internet Security (CIS)
- US DoD STIG
- NIST CVE
- SANS Policy
CyberHunter can audit network devices as well: Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, HP ProCurve, Fortinet, Check Point, WatchGuard, Foundry and many others.
Four Key Cyber Security Principles for Manufacturing Companies
The following four key principles can help guide organizations in taking a more proactive stance in combating malware:
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Accept that malware and APTs will breach existing defences.
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Treat endpoints as untrusted until proven otherwise.
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Trust established in an endpoint is both finite and fleeting.
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Validate endpoints as malware free, anytime, anyplace.
Vulnerability Assessments vs. Penetration Tests for Manufacturing Companies?
Vulnerability assessments and penetration testing are terms that are used interchangeably but are ultimately different services. In plain terms, a vulnerability assessment is like a thief making a note of all your points of entry and identifying the locks you have in place. Penetration testing, on the other hand, is actually picking the lock and getting inside — but with permission.
Why Choose CyberHunter for Your Manufacturing Company Pen Test ?
- The CyberHunter Pen Test 2.0 methodology leverages the most advanced tools, techniques and procedures in the industry to enumerate, identify and report on your existing security posture.
- We are the only threat assessment solution that can perform an advanced Vulnerability Scan and Pen Test while simultaneously hunting for, and identifying Advanced Persistent Threats that are ALREADY embedded in you network.
- CyberHunter gives you the insight and cyber intelligence you need for your Manufacturing Company to be proactive.
BE PROACTIVE.
Trust in a network device is very temporary. Be proactive and ensure you scan, test and hunt on a regular basis.
TRUST NOTHING.
Security teams should NEVER trust an endpoint or server until it can be PROVEN to be trusted.
MALWARE CAN GET IN.
Companies need to prepare and be ready to respond to advanced persistent threats.