Penetration Testing

CLEVER, INTELLIGENT, AND VERY RESOURCEFUL

Why our Pen Testers are your best defence against hackers

One article recently commented that ‘the ideal Pen Tester exhibits a healthy dose of deviancy.’ On the surface that reads like a contradiction, but it’s exactly what thinkers about defence and security have always believed.

Cybersecurity is, ultimately, about people. How your people use technology and applications, how (human) hackers plot to take advantage of your (very human) weaknesses and any technical gaps in your defences.

Pen Testers exist because both people and technology are vulnerable. You can’t automate your way to total security. You need people – clever, experienced, and resourceful experts who know the technical aspects of cyber backwards and also understand how people behave in real life.

At Reliance acsn we’re proud of our team of Pen Testers. Their brilliance is what sets us apart from our competitors. Their skills, ingenuity, and ability to go to the dark side is what will help boost your cyber defences.

And, uniquely, once you’re a Reliance customer, you get to engage with them – no account manager in between.

FULLY QUALIFIED AND ACCREDITED

Trust is vital. You need to be sure that our Pen Testers are on your side and that they’re backed by strict accreditations which underpin our integrity. The Reliance brand is based on how they deploy their knowledge and expertise on behalf of our customers.

DON’T MEET THE TEAM

Our Pen Testers are great people, but we can’t identify them on our web page. They’re experts at replicating the behaviours of bad actors – without being bad themselves. Here’s just a flavour:

“I was doing a Build Review when it struck me that there were these really mundane tasks being run on a Windows 10 client at the same time each day. I mean, they look so ordinary you wouldn’t give them a second thought normally. But it’s our job to be suspicious and always have that ‘second thought’. So, I did… well, let’s say ‘a few things’… and by the next day I’d discovered it was a sneaky way to get full administrator rights which would allow a hacker to deliver a nasty pay load.”

That experience sums up our team’s expertise. They work together as well as individually. And together they provide a strong and rigorous pen testing service, something no single Pen Tester could achieve in a short space of time.

MEET THE TEAM

Reliance acsn is different because, once we work for you, our Pen Testers actually talk to you. Person to person. In confidence. That means we can tailor our services to your specific needs. We don’t just do templates. You’re part of the evolving process. There isn’t an account manager between you and them. We use automation, but don’t rely on it.

By its very nature, pen testing deals with uncertainty; you don’t know what will be found or where. That means that relying on templates to simulate attacks can only go so far. The past can often be a guide to the future when it comes to what hackers do, but the worst attacks come out of the blue. You have to think of every eventuality. And that’s best done as a team – us and you – that knows each other.

So, you will meet the team. Just not here, in public.