TRACKFLAWHow to choose the right penetration testing provider in 2024?
🕵️ How to choose the right penetration testing provider in 2024?
Is an penetration test useful?
The answer is yes!
Penetration testing is an essential step in IT security. They help identify vulnerabilities in an IT system and correct them before they are exploited by malicious attackers.
Choosing a penetration testing provider is an important decision. It’s important to select a reliable and competent provider, capable of delivering quality results.
In this article, Trackflaw offers you its advice on how to choose your new penetration testing provider.
Criteria
There are many criteria to consider when choosing a penetration test provider. Here are the most important:
- Experience: the provider must have significant experience in the field of penetration testing.
- Skills: the provider must have a team of qualified, experienced professionals.
- Certifications: the service provider must be certified by a recognized organization.
- Methodology: the service provider must use a recognized penetration testing methodology.
- Confidentiality: the service provider must guarantee the confidentiality of company data.
Trackflaw meets all the criteria detailed above:
- Experience: we have over 9 years’ experience in offensive security.
- Skills: we carry out dozens of services a year for customers in all fields.
- Certifications: we are state-approved and OSCP-certified.
- Methodology: we scrupulously follow the OWASP testing guide to ensure that our tests are as exhaustive as possible.
- Confidentiality: we carry out all our assignments through contracts and memorandums of understanding to guarantee the confidentiality of our audits.
Questions to ask
Once you’ve selected a few potential providers, it’s important to ask a few questions to make sure they meet your needs. Here are some questions you can ask:
- What experience do you have in penetration testing?
- What are your certifications?
- What is your penetration testing methodology?
- How do you guarantee data confidentiality?
- How much do you charge?
At Trackflaw, we’re totally transparent about what we do:
- Experience: 7 years in IT security, +10 years in IT.
- Certifications: OSCP, CEH and referenced on the French state Cybermalveillance platform.
- Methodology: OWASP, our bedside book 😉
- Confidentiality: contract, memorandum of understanding and infrastructure 100% controlled and administered by ourselves.
- Pricing: below the vast majority of companies on the market.
Quotes
In order to have as much choice as possible, we recommend that you contact 2 to 3 service providers to establish a response to your needs for each one. However, this can be costly in terms of time and resources. That’s why it’s a good idea to prepare your interviews well in advance, to make your service provider’s job as easy as possible.
Here are a few tips:
- Your need: think about your need. The clearer and more precise your needs, the more likely your supplier will be able to meet them.
- Your budget: think about your budget. penetration testing is expensive, so it’s important to anticipate the appropriate budget.
- Your planning: an audit should be planned as early as possible. Position your dates as clearly as possible, so as to help your service provider position his workload as effectively as possible.
At Trackflaw, we simplify this time-consuming and resource-intensive process. Receive your estimate within minutes of a short phone call.
More information: https://trackflaw.com/commande/
References
A service provider’s references attest to its veracity and seriousness. Don’t hesitate to ask the service provider for references from companies that have already used their services.
Trackflaw works and has worked with numerous companies in all fields: banking and insurance, IT, services, etc…
Here are just a few of our references:
- Digitemis
- CNPP
- Exelerys
- Etc…
Trackflaw’s advantages
When you call on Trackflaw to carry out your audits, you benefit from a level of rigor and comprehensiveness superior to any competitor on the market.
1. Rigorous methodologies
To guarantee exhaustive testing, Trackflaw meticulously follows the OWASP methodology, divided into 12 sections.
Each of these sections includes sample tests to verify an application’s functionality and best assess its overall level of security. A similar methodology is applied to internal and mobile penetration testing.
2. No scanner report
Automatic vulnerability scanners are powerful and useful tools in our business.
However, some unscrupulous companies offer this type of tool as a real penetration testing service, degrading our image as auditors.
These tools cannot guarantee the completeness of the tests carried out, and therefore distort the overall assessment of the security level of the audited perimeter.
3. An exhaustive report
An auditor’s job is first and foremost to clearly and concisely communicate the various weaknesses identified to the audited teams, so as to provide them with the greatest possible assistance in their corrective work.
Audit reports are thus the most important elements. Trackflaw devotes a great deal of attention to them, so that they can be fully assimilated by both managerial and highly technical audiences.
The various sections are designed to be understood by all levels of a company’s hierarchy.
4. No subcontracting
Many unscrupulous companies subcontract their penetration tests for a variety of reasons.
This lack of professionalism leads to problems of confidentiality, follow-up and transparency for the client. At Trackflaw, in order to guarantee the firm’s know-how, high standards and brand image, as well as to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the elements handled during audits, no mission is subcontracted.
Only the company’s own staff are authorized to take part in audits.
5. Attractive rates
Trackflaw has an attractive pricing policy aimed at very small, small and medium-sized companies. We adapt to every need and budget to provide the best possible response.
Conclusion
Choosing an audit provider is a complex task. Trackflaw is here to help and support you. Get in touch with us: commande@trackflaw.com