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Modern technology (APIs, Microservices, Cloud Platforms, Mobile Apps) is rapidly changing and becoming a target for attackers as they continue to advance and become more sophisticated. Organizations use penetration testing (a form of ethical hacking) to identify weaknesses in their systems and address them before they can be taken advantage of.

Keploy supports organizations’ application security through automated test generation, mocking and regression testing throughout the application development lifecycle. Combined with Penetration Testing after the application has been created, organizations will have increased assurance and resilience against cyberattacks on their applications, APIs, and Cloud Environments in the real world.

Why Penetration Testing Is Essential for Modern Systems

For companies that are built on engineering principles, or for businesses that provide software as a service (SaaS), financial services (FinTech), e-commerce, or are undergoing digital transformation, penetration testing will be an important part of the overall security program. Unlike traditional Quality Assurance testing and automated test methods, penetration testing provides much deeper insight into application security, and it also identifies the weaknesses in your systems that hackers/public would likely exploit.

1. Identifies Security Gaps Before Attackers Do

Penetration testing can help find misconfigurations, logical errors, insecure code paths, and insecure integrations that may go undetected by automated scanning tools. If you identify these weaknesses early, you may be able to prevent costly incidents.

2. Strengthens Your Security Posture

Penetration tests provide insight into where your organization’s current weaknesses exist within the infrastructure.

3. Meets Compliance Requirements

In most industries, including banking and finance (BFSI), education, healthcare and the government, you must conduct regular penetration testing based on your respective industry’s regulations. Examples of the types of regulations that would require you to conduct regular penetration testing include:
• ISO 27001
• SOC 2
• GDPR
• PCI DSS
• HIPAA

A detailed pen test report supports audit readiness.

4. Prevents Financial and Reputational Damage

When your organization is impacted by a security breach, it can result in loss of revenue, loss of customers, law suits and damage to trust within your brand. By utilizing penetration testing, you will reduce the risk of being impacted by a security breach significantly.

5. Validates the Security of yours APIs and Microservices

Newer applications are heavily dependent on APIs, therefore, penetration testing can assist your organization in ensuring that your APIs are not being accessed by anyone without permission; that they cannot be exploited by injection attacks, and that data cannot be extracted from them.

How Keploy Complements Penetration Testing

By processing real-world traffic, Keploy enables consistent quality in application development through automated test case generation, mock generation, and regression suites. This automation results in fewer functional bugs, fewer API53 failures, and lower risk during deployment than when an application was manually tested.

Once an application has passed all quality checks, it will need to go through security testing.

Keploy + Penetration Testing = Secure, Reliable Engineering

Keploy provides developers with automated testing tools to help identify logical and functional errors in their applications, while Penetration Testing validates the security of the application through testing the following:
• Secure authentication method
• Strong authorization method
• No data leakage
• No exploitable code paths
• No deployment misconfigurations

Together, this combination of quality and security will improve both quality and security, while not inhibiting the velocity of development.

Penetration Testing Service Offerings

1. Network Penetration Testing (Internal & External)

Testing your internal and external networks for exposed services, weak configurations, insecure devices and privilege escalation paths, helps you find:
• Open ports
• Misconfigured firewalls
• Poorly segmented networks
• Old Operating Systems
• Lateral Movement Opportunities

A secure network is the foundation of your infrastructure.

2. Web Application Penetration Testing

Web applications are under constant attack (e.g., injection attacks, authentication bypass, cross-site scripting, business logic abuse). We test for: –

SQL/NoSQL Injection
Authentication Flaws
Session Hijacking
Broken Access Control
Misconfigured Security Headers
File Upload Vulnerabilities
API Communication Flaws

We align our testing with OWASP’s Top 10 and modern threat vectors.

3. API Penetration Testing

APIs are the core of SaaS and Cloud–Native Platforms. APIs require a deeper analysis than merely functional testing. We include testing for: –

Broken Object–Level Authorization (BOLA)
Insecure API Keys/Tokens
Rate Limit Issues
Endpoint Enumeration
Injection Vulnerabilities
Data Exposure Risks

Keploy provides API reliability, but penetration testing provides API security.

4. Mobile Application Penetration Testing

Mobile Apps are storing personal data, Tokens and other Sensitive Information. Weak Mobile Security leads to high-impact breaches. We test for: –

Local Data Storage Risks
Weak Encryption
Hard-coded Keys
API Communication Flaws
Reverse Engineering Threats
Root/Jailbreak Bypass Protection

Both Android and iOS devices can have vulnerabilities.

5. Cloud Security Testing

Type of security testing: it checks for misconfigurations within your public or private cloud infrastructures which are a top contributor to breaches today. We conduct testing on all cloud environment types including AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, and hybrid cloud environments.

Testing areas include:

• IAM privileges misconfigured

• Services exposed publicly (Internet-accessible)

• Storage bucket data leaks

• All inbound rules permitted

• Misconfigured serverless services

We ensure your cloud deployments follow best security practices.

6. Wireless Network Penetration Testing

Weak Wi-Fi networks are one of the leading reasons organizations are compromised via unauthorized access.

What we have tested includes:

• Wi-Fi encryption strength

• Rogue Wi-Fi access point detection

• Credentials brute-force attacks

• Spoofing MAC addresses

7. Social Engineering Testing (Optional)

The use of social engineering as a basis for exploiting individuals, rather than relying upon exploited technologies, may constitute a serious threat to individual privacy rights and the integrity of their business data. Additionally, social engineering is used to create legitimate avenues for attackers to access and manipulate sensitive and/or personal information stored within your organization.

Examples of how we simulate such techniques include:

• Phishing emails

• Pretextual telephone calls

• Impersonation of an employee/supervisor/other person for the purposes of acquiring access or sensitive information from an organization.

This service allows for measuring both the culture of security awareness and employee training regarding social engineering tactics.

Our Penetration Testing Methodology

We utilize the following well-respected frameworks (both established and regularly updated):
• OWASP
• NIST SP 800-115
• PTES
• OSSTMM

By utilizing these frameworks for penetration testing, we are able to ensure that all testing is performed consistently across all types of testing methodologies, which is the safest way to conduct penetration tests.

1. Scope of Work & Planning

Defining the objectives of your penetration testing, as well as the environment(s) in which the penetration test(s) will take place is crucial in defining the success of your penetration testing. Clearly identifying objectives, testing limits, potential risks, and deliverables also allows for more effective penetration testing to be performed without adversely affecting day-to-day operations.

2. Information Gathering

As part of the reconnaissance process, we identify and categorize information related to:

• Network architecture,

• Application flow,

• Hardware and Software,

• Publicly accessible information,

• Application programming interfaces (API),

• Cloud Computing infrastructure.

By mapping out the attack surface, we are able to develop multiple avenues from which potential attackers may penetrate your environment.

3. Vulnerability Analysis

Using state-of-the-art scanning and manual inspection methods, we will find stock vulnerabilities such as…

• Outdated Software,

• Misconfigured systems,

• Third-party software risks…

4. Manual Exploitation

Manual penetration testing is the cornerstone of penetration testing. Our ethical hackers attempt to exploit vulnerabilities to assess real business impact. We simulate actual attacker behaviour to evaluate:
• Privilege escalation
• Data extraction
• Internal movement
• Authentication bypass

5. Post-Exploitation Assessment

We analyze how deeply an attacker could penetrate the system once inside.

6. Reporting

The following documents will be produced to you:
• Executive summary for leadership
• Detailed technical findings
• Severity classification
• Proof-of-concept evidence
• Impact analysis
• Mitigation guidance

Reports are designed for both engineers and management teams.

7. Retesting & Validation

Once the fixes have been applied, the systems will be re-evaluated in order to validate that all vulnerabilities have been resolved.

Benefits of Our Penetration Testing Services

To reduce the risk of security breaches and exposure to Cybersecurity.
To improve the overall security of the company’s Infrastructure and Applications.
To meet international compliance regulations.
To safeguard customer information and the company’s reputation.
To enable a secure DevOps process and Engineering Practices.
To increase confidence in deployment processes.
To secure APIs and Microservices.
To foster good faith with users and stakeholders.

How Penetration Testing Supports Secure Development With Keploy

By generating test cases, mocks, and regression suites through Keploy, developers can ensure the reliability of their code. When used in conjunction with Penetration Testing (pen test), organizations gain:

A reduction in the number of defects that are discovered during release cycles
An increase in API quality for the organisation
Increased confidence in the security of its APIs
Less risk associated when releasing an application
Increased resiliency across varying operating environments

These two tools allow teams to regularly ship stable, secure and high-quality software consistently.

Conclusion

The Penetration Testing Service has changed from being an option to being a required component of modern secure engineering. With the rapid growth of businesses and the increasing number of interconnected systems, businesses must also react to the changes in threat landscapes. Keploy’s Penetration Testing Services are designed to provide organizations with the means to identify possible vulnerabilities, quantify risk, and eliminate the threats of cyberattacks before they occur.

Together with Keploy’s tools for automated testing and reliability, your organizations will have a comprehensive way to create secure, stable, and very resilient applications. The combined effect of these two sets of tools will not only speed up the time to market of your product but also improve your organisation’s ability to deliver secure and high-quality products to the rest of the market.

FAQs

1. How often do I conduct penetration tests?

Generally, organizations will perform a penetration test at least once a year or whenever they complete major changes to their systems (including substantial upgrades and new structures).

2. Vulnerability scanning versus penetration testing.

A vulnerability scanner identifies issues through automated analysis, whereas penetration testing provides a way of testing those issues’ potential real-world impact via manual exploitation of vulnerabilities.

3. Length of time for a penetration test.

Depending on the scope of your test, you should expect it to last anywhere from one to four weeks. This includes the time necessary to develop your findings, analyze that data, and produce a report.

4. Is there any downtime when performing a penetration test?

We plan penetration tests to ensure there will be no disruptions in service and that testing will be performed using safe, documented, and controlled methods.

5. Does Keploy replace a penetration test?

No, Keploy enhances the quality and reliability of functional testing. Penetration testing focuses solely on vulnerabilities; both processes together offer complete coverage for your organization.

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