Hostile Cyber Recon Assessment

Assessment of your wider attack surface, from an external perspective, which mimics any initial reconnaissance activities that may precede a cyber attack or breach.  Focuses on data and vulnerability exposure – as discovered outside of the client IT environment, and takes the perspective of a determined threat actor who performs reconnaissance in order to gain a foothold into the organisation from which further attacks can take place.​ 

Our service is unique and undertaken by humans, as opposed to just using automated tools. We look for the relevance of findings to your organisation and provide a tailored approach.

 

The principal benefit is to strengthen your security posture by reducing the likelihood of the success of any pre-attack recon activity and reduce the effect of such activities which normally go undetected by any security tooling and methods. An organisation could have extremely effective security controls on their digital assets, but have little visibility and alerting on any leaked data on the public domain.

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Reconnaissance activities usually precede more serious cyber incidents and often do not require a high level of technical skill which makes the risk of discovery and subsequent exploitation very high.

 

Most identified vulnerabilities can largely be remedied with a minimal effort resulting in a significant reduction of risk. This service can be used before any future red team exercise or penetration test.