1a. What are some of the actions you would take to conduct a Red Team assessment? According to the book “Penetration Testing, A hands-on Introduction to Hacking (Weidman, 2014)”, there are six phases of the penetration testing process. The six phases are pre-engagement interactions, intelligence gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, post-exploitation and reporting. Pre-engagement During the pre-engagement phase, I would interact and plan out the testing scenario with the client. We would discuss their expectations, versus reality and their goals for performing the pentest. Additionally, we would engage in discussions detailing the project scope to define responsibilities of the red team and the responsibilities of the organization. As well, we would discuss left and right boundaries regarding actions and reactions to situations that may occur as a result of the pentest scenario. Finally, after all expectations, goals, responsibilities and project scope are clearly identified and agreed upon we would need to discuss what type of reporting mechanism the client prefers. Some clients may prefer a more discreet reporting platform, informing only a select few employees . Other organizations may prefer a more widespread dissemination of the pentest findings to use as an awareness and teaching mechanism for their employees. Information Gathering During the Information-gathering phase, I would begin Open Source Research
(a) There are typically six assessment methods that we can chose to employ within your role. These are listed below along with examples of when and how they could be implemented:
3. Which application is used for Step #2 in the hacking process to perform a vulnerability assessment scan?
Explain legal issues, policies and procedures relevant to assessment, including those for confidentiality, health, safety and welfare
Our company is looking for security threats inside and outside their network. The best way to see what our network is vulnerable to is to use penetration testing (pen-testing) to find the leaks in and out of our network. Penetration testing is a network security approach that simulates an attack from an intruder trying to get unauthorized access to the infrastructure. With this type of testing the intent is to discover flaws in the security settings of the system before they can be exploited. Information Assurance Research Corporation (IARC) should conduct penetration testing on a regular basis, so we have the ability to locate weaknesses in the hardware and software, check the security controls currently established and determine if the
Penetration testing is the attempt to identify security weaknesses within the IT infrastructure of an
6. The risk assessment team will conduct an inspection of the department/area being assessed for risk or observe the process being assessed for risk in action. The members of the risk assessment team will individually document their findings on the “ABC Proactive Risk Assessment Worksheet” (Attachment A). To determine the appropriate score for each identified risk, the reviewer will consider information obtained through a physical tour of the facility, review of annual incident
Discuss approaches to a penetration test and vulnerability scan in terms of black box, white box and gray box tests.
Task 4: Explain when and why the inquiries and serious case review processes are required, issues of how to share findings and implications for the worker's practice.
d). Draw on previous assessments - These can be useful if the person has already had
Given a case such as the Week 6 project requiring analysis, develop a report to present findings and recommendations.
1. Look for factors that may lead to patients, staff and others, including yourself, being in danger of harm and
10. There are four phases of penetration testing, according to NIST. They are planning, discovery, attack, and reporting. In the planning phase, rules are identified, management approval is finalized, and testing goals are set. The discovery phase starts the actual testing. Techniques commonly used in the discovery phase include port scanning, DNS interrogation, whois queries, search of the target organizations web servers, search of the LDAP, packet capture, NetBIOS enumeration, and Banner grabbing. While vulnerability scanners only check that a vulnerability may exist, the attack phase of a penetration test exploits the vulnerability, confirming its existence. The reporting phase occurs simultaneously with the other three phases of the penetration test.
b) Facilitating the reviews performed by supervisors, managers, engagement partners, engagement quality reviewers, and PCAOB inspectors.
Please note that this Assessment has 6 pages and is made up of 3 Sections.
Penetration testing is when a company pays a specialist to try and break into their network and relay back to them any vulnerabilities they may find. Now