Penetration Testing Services

Assess the security of your organization's network from an internal and external perspective by completing a penetration test with Bridewell’s highly certified and experienced offensive security experts.

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Testing and Securing Your Most Critical Assets

Our penetration testing services help Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) organizations identify, test and secure their most critical IT and OT systems.

All our engagements are tailored to provide a realistic simulation of how bad actors may target your organization, while considering any specialist systems or equipment you may use.

Our Penetration Testing Services

We listen to our clients and seek to understand the unique business drivers and objectives of the organization and the individuals within them. This allows us to develop the most appropriate approach, framework and team which culminates in an outcome driven approach that goes beyond just delivering the framework and builds a trusted relationship.

Our Penetration Testing Services

We listen to our clients and seek to understand the unique business drivers and objectives of the organisation and the individuals within them. This allows us to develop the most appropriate approach, framework and team which culminates in an outcome driven approach that goes beyond just delivering the framework and builds a trusted relationship.

The Benefits of our Cybersecurity Frameworks

A Complete Evaluation of Your Infrastructure

The assessment provides a true validation of your current defensive practices and guidance on improving detection and response capabilities.

A Modular, Tailored Approach

Bridewell doesn’t have a one-size-fits-all approach to testing, and will customize the engagement dependent on your specific objectives (e.g. active directory assessment, password reviews, firewall reviews, device reviews).

Targeted and Prioritised Remediation Actions

Increase your defensive capabilities simply and at pace with the guidance of our penetration testing experts.

Improve Your Security Investment

Validate your current software configuration and work with Bridewell to optimize your configuration and streamline maintenance for the highest level of protection and best return on investment.

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Key Challenges Addressed

Organisations that don’t regularly perform penetration testing often face challenges in protecting sensitive data and systems, maintaining compliance and customer trust, and reducing the risk of a successful cyber attack.

Penetration testing – or pen testing – helps organisations identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to access sensitive data, such as customer information or financial records. These vulnerabilities can also result in financial losses for an organization, either through direct financial theft or through the costs of responding to and recovering from a successful cyber attack.

Pen testing can help organizations identify and address vulnerabilities before an attacker can exploit them, thereby reducing risk and securing their business. This also supports compliance through helping an organization meet regulatory requirements by relevant industry bodies (such as the PCI DSS).

Bridewell’s approach to penetration testing incorporates advanced remote testing solutions.

As a result, there’s no need for Bridewell personnel to be on-site unless specifically requested or desired by the customer, which can reduce potential overheads for the client as there is no requirement for dedicated space and support for on-site personnel.

Our penetration testing team consists of ex-sysadmins, developers, network engineers and system architects who bring years of experience developing and securing environments.

This ensures our assessment considers all aspects of your organisation’s infrastructure, incorporates lesser-known attacks and vulnerabilities, and considers business-impact of a potential breach.

Penetration Testing Process
All our engagements are tailored to support the specific requirements and objectives of your organisation. This generally aligns with the following process:

To initiate the project, Bridewell will work with key stakeholders in your organization to understand your needs. During this phase, our consultants will establish the scope and timescale of the engagement, contact any of your third parties and key contacts, and ensure all legal aspects are covered.

Once the scope is agreed, we will conduct the assessment while following industry recognized practices such as the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST) and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).

If Bridewell identify any critical issues, we will inform you immediately. The assessment phase can be completed on your premises or remotely, dependent on your requirements and the technical components and environment being assessed. Our tests are open and transparent and you are able to watch our findings in real time on our secure portal.

Once the test has concluded, Bridewell will compile all collated evidence from the test and develop a report which includes full details of the assessment, the findings and specific remedial guidance to address the findings. Our reports are written in easy-to-understand language that can be used by both executive and/ or technical audiences. We can also provide redacted content relevant to your clients (if requested).

Bridewell will subsequently work with your organisation to remediate any vulnerabilities or issues identified. Our consultants will recommend and implement vulnerability management solutions, which can support you with ongoing identification, risk quantification and remediation of vulnerabilities.

We are vendor neutral as an organization but have a vast level of experience in many industry and open-source products to suit individual client requirements. We also have a team of engineers that can support remedial if additional resource or expertise is required.

Following implementation, Bridewell has a suite of additional services to identify threats and vulnerabilities on a continuous basis. For example, providing recurring penetration tests on a regular basis or our vulnerability management service.

Customer Case Studies

“Over the past three years we have grown rapidly as a business. We wanted to put the structures in place to enable us to get to the next level of growth.

Mike Hord, Opticore Commercial Director.

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Engaging with Bridewell

By taking an adaptive, customer first approach, we provide trusted services that deliver outcome focused results.

Understand

We listen and learn about your business challenges, goals and ambitions, strategic drivers and culture.

Assess

We assess your current risk position relative to your needs and goals, and develop a roadmap for optimizing your cybersecurity.

Design

We design solutions, processes and strategies that allow you to achieve the desired state of security and effectiveness.

Optimise

We use our agile yet focused methodology to evolve and optimize your solution over time, to maximize value.

Manage

We operate as an extension of your own cybersecurity team, delivering tangible, value-added cybersecurity on a 24/7 basis.

Implement

We draw on our experience and expertise to implement the agreed technical solutions, governance, compliance frameworks and migration processes.

Penetration Testing FAQs

Penetration testing (pentesting) is a method for gaining assurance over the vulnerability assessment of your organization and management process. It’s an authorised and simulated cyber attack conducted by ethical cybersecurity experts to pressure test and identify vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them.

It’s recommended that pentesting be carried out annually at a minimum, to meet the baseline security standards for compliance with GDPR and other information privacy regulations. However, quarterly and bi-annual testing is preferred for high-risk and highly-regulated industries like healthcare and finance.

Penetration testing isn’t specifically required for ISO 27001 compliance, but it’s highly recommended alongside an ISO 27001 certification as best practice. It’s not specifically demanded, but auditors will expect evidence of effective security controls, making regular testing an important activity.

Vulnerability scans are automated and completed at a frequent, detailed level to identify known security gaps. However, penetration testing is a manual, in-depth simulation of real-world attacks by ethical professionals to exploit vulnerabilities and assess actual risk and impact.

Why Us?

180+ Security Specialists

Our team have diverse experience across sectors and disciplines, and hold accreditations from numerous industry bodies.

Certifications

Our people and services are highly accredited by leading industry bodies including CREST, the NCSC, and more. Our SOC holds extensive accreditations from CREST (including for CSIR and SOC2) and works closely with our cyber consultancy services.

Partnerships

As a Microsoft Partner, we also hold advanced specialisms in Cloud Security and Threat Protection. We’ve also implemented some of the UK’s largest deployments of the Microsoft Security stack, inc. Sentinel, Defender, Purview and more.

Accreditations and Certifications

Our cybersecurity consultants and services are globally recognized for meeting the highest standards of accreditation and have leading industry certifications.