Internal Security Testing

Security testing with hackers view is very important to understand the security challenges. External PT/Security is important, but internal security testing is also important to check if the network gets compromised, then what can be maximum impact in system.

Lets go straight to internal security testing checklist

  1. Gather Information and Footprinting exercise
  2. Do network assessments
  3. Scan for ports and services
  4. Find out dangerous services running
  5. Perform credential VA to find critical challenges
  6. Scan for malwares and trojans using specific plugin ids
  7. Identify password related challenges in VA
  8. Specially search scan results to find root credentials, admin credentials, blank passwords, passwords never expire, default passwords
  9. Find out where audit trails not enabled
  10. Specially target DB servers for password violations
  11. Try password cracking using any dictionary  or hybrid attacks and if allowed go for brute force attacks
  12. Do firewall analysis to check for ports allowed
  13.  Check for access to application server and see if you can get access to code level analysis
  14. If access granted to application code, try to drop code for vulnerable jqueries or css
  15. Try to trace web servers and check for certificate errors
  16. Map exploits through google hack database or exploit database to find out available exploits for vulnerabilities
  17. Create a map of vulnerabilities and exploits and how it will be exploited along with missing controls


Above points can help you identify maximum security loop holes in system and give complete insight of security challenges in business.

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