PENETRATION TESTING

MCS Security is a pure Penetration Testing (Pentest) security vulnerability and assessment firm. Many of our clients do not only recognized us as a penetration testing firm but instead as their trusted cybersecurity partner. As the leading cybersecurity consulting firm in Botswana and Africa at large, we provide cybersecurity solutions that assist our clients in improving their information security infrastructures, and our objective in-depth security testing methodologies differentiate us from the rest in this industry.

Since we entirely focus on the provision of penetration testing solutions that assist our clients in staying ahead of malicious hackers through vulnerability assessment, the MCS Security penetration testing approach is mainly considered as objective and neutral. It is the main reason why our client always acknowledges us as their trusted cybersecurity advisors and penetration testing partner.

MCS Security Real Penetration Test (Pen Testing)

MCS Security penetration testing services focus on real security and compliance issues that put critical information assets at risk within organizations. If our penetration testing security experts discover a vulnerability, then we perform more tests to gather more information to identify any potential security flaws and fix them before exploited by malicious hackers. Consequently, we ensure that we only perform penetration testing once we understand our client's business operations so that when we discover any security issues, we know whether they are of high or low risk to your business environment.

Penetration testing effort should not only focus on the information report generated by the automated security tools. MCS Security methodologies are a fully hybrid combination of business processes and technical modeling approach. Therefore only Vulnerabilities that matter most to our clients will get prioritized and reported on time before exploited by hackers targeting their organization.

Why Perform Penetration Testing with MCS Security?

It is significant for any organization, despite its size and industry, to engage a penetration testing firm such as MCS Security to assist them in identifying vulnerabilities within their organizations to enable them to stay ahead of malicious attackers. The following are various reason why organizations should perform penetration testing with us;

Staying ahead of Malicious Hackers: Our penetration testing security experts will assist you in assessing security vulnerabilities within your digital assets and fixing them before exploited by hackers. Ultimately MCS Security will provide step by step advisory guidance to tackle such weaknesses and enhance your business information security using our proven methodologies.

Methodologies: Unlike the typical penetration testing approach followed by many, we do not limit our security assessment to standard mythologies such as Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM), Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and NIST. MCS Security approach includes the security risk tolerance of the organization and overall critical business security best practices. MCS Security, with more than a decade of experience in real-life cybersecurity incidents handling and digital forensics. Our clients can trust our penetration testing methodologies, which will always assist you with all security information that matters to keep you safe from malicious hackers.

Cost-Effective: We understand that most organizations do not prioritize penetration testing only upon required by a regulator or governing body. There is nothing wrong with that, but in today's digital markets of the internet of things (IoT), penetration testing is the critical element for secure business operations. In our niche, we can assure you that our penetration testing services prices are comfortably smack dab in the middle. But our penetration objective, assessment, and quality are incomparable.

Backed by Solid Track Records: MCS Security is the First Botswana Company to be licensed by EC Council to perform Penetration Testing Services. Our professional cybersecurity experts have performed numerous penetration testing for our various clients, including financial institutions, eCommerce retailers, government agencies, and essential public bodies, using the methods and tools of a potential hacker. Over the years, MCS Security specialized penetration testing service has become a successful integral part of the information security management process for many organizations in our region. Our penetration testing experts regularly work on security assessments projects with various financial institutions and government agencies to ensure that their information assets are appropriately secured to reduce potential security risks exposure and assist them in being proactive in identifying security vulnerabilities.MCS Security pen testers typically have over ten years of real-life penetration testing experience from the various successful project we have delivered to our clients over the years. Our team consists of qualified individuals holding reputable certificates, including CHFI, CISSP, CEH, CPTE, and other certifications. Through our proven penetration testing methodologies, MCS Security has become the leading penetration testing firm in Botswana and Africa, guiding our clients in building more robust secure network infrastructures.

RED TEAMING

You may think your organization's information assets are secure from potential cyber threats, especially if you have been consciously performing Penetration Tests against your information security infrastructure. However, to be truly confident, it is crucial to conduct real-life attack scenarios designed to measure how secure is your organization defense mechanism and response measure against rising cyber threats such as social engineering and network attacks. By conducting Read Teaming attack exercise, assist organizations to easily measure how effective their information security defense mechanism from potential threats and also test Incident Response efficiency in detecting and tracking down attackers.

Red Teaming involves activity whereby a group or experience penetration tester conducts in-depth security assessment activities to test the organization preparedness against potential real-world security threats. Red Teaming exercise is usually performed to attack an organization's digital assets to identify and evaluate the organization's security defense mechanism and postures to avoid attackers from gaining access to sensitive information. Read Teaming simulate several malicious attackers penetrating organization information security infrastructure. Typically, group security experts launch simulated attacks to test staff within the organization if they are aware of current cyber threats. Usually, several attack methods include but not limited to social engineering; physical and wireless network hacking are widely used in simulation attacks.

MCS Security Red Teaming

MCS Security is an industry leader in cybersecurity consultancy and penetration testing with an outstanding reputation in providing first-class cybersecurity solutions to various clients despite their size and industry. Our Red Team Engagement entirely focuses on the security assessment of an organization's security infrastructure both digitally and physically. MCS Security Red teaming exercises are driven by threat intelligence information gathered by our Cyber Proof Center. Launched in August 2018, our CPC has served numerous customers delivering simulated real-life attacks and demonstrating security countermeasures to manage rising cyber-attacks. Our Threat Management program and Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team is made up of experienced security consultants, and they are always on standby 24/7, ready to serve our customers and resolves their security issues.

Key Benefits:

  • The red teaming exercise aims at challenging your organization to improve its security defense efficiency through performing a simulated real-world attack.
  • Measures the effectiveness of cybersecurity defense mechanism protecting your organizations from attacks and also test the efficiency of the Incident Response team to detect and track down attackers targeting your organization.
  • Enables your organization to not only gain a clear understanding of attack vector methods used by attackers and also assist your organization security team to stay ahead of malicious attacks by creating swift and effective response measures against sophisticated attacks.

How We Can Help:

  • Our Red Team Security Experts will assist your organization with extensive vulnerability assessment services using our customized security attack tools, techniques, and strategies to test your organization's security mechanism strength.
  • MCS Security penetration testing consultants may even go the extra mile by conducting penetration testing in areas that most organizations deem less critical when it comes to information assets security.

MCS Security Red Team Engagement Process:

  • Understanding Security Infrastructure
    In the first stage of our Red Team Engagement process, our security consultants will visit the target and study the organization's security infrastructure. This exercise aims to gather useful information about the organization's security from employees through social engineering and also make an observation of the implemented security infrastructure.
    During this stage, our security experts will usually use false identification (masquerading) roles such as technical staff, customers, law enforcement personnel to gain access to the target organization to perform the read team engagement process of understanding the client's security infrastructure.
  • Strategic planning
    Once our security consultants gathered enough information about the target organization, a detailed strategic plan for execution will be designed. A definite checklist of all required tasks from each Red team member will be issued accordingly. Every task is taken into consideration, ultimately, to assist our clients in identifying all critical loopholes in the current implemented security infrastructure.
  • Red Team Execution
    Finally, after gathering information and have a solid plan on the major steps to take to compromise target organization, our read team will conduct real live scenario to penetrate and infiltrate the security of your organization keeping a record of each and every attack vector used to exploit any vulnerability within the organization security infrastructure. Usually, our Red team execution is conducted using both social and technical attacks, including but not limited to malware installation in workstations, simulated phishing attack emails, dumpster diving, etc. To ensure successful and safe red team execution, MCS Security works together with your IT department staff to ensure all your security issues are addressed and audited accordingly without putting your sensitive information gathered during the process at risk.

Everything is a possible target

Not all organizations are ready to take the step to improve their security by engaging Read Team because of this exercise target organization people, process, and technology. Red Teaming engagement provides overall security preparedness against malicious hackers, be it through remote or physical access of your digital assets. Red teaming should always be conducted ethically by professional security organization with experienced staff. At MCS Security, we have experience Red Team security consultants ready to engage with your organization to improve your security to protect your information assets from rising cyber-attacks.