Offensive Security and Penetration Testing
Is your environment resilient? Is it compliant? Let’s find out together.
For Sidekick, penetration tests are not a check and forget exercise or an automated scan. They’re a framework and springboard to evaluate your security in the face of a constantly-evolving and highly creative adversary, and ensure that your security posture is not only effective but also in line with your organization’s priorities.
How To Engage
Targeted Penetration Tests
If you need an in-depth penetration testing exercise in offensive security, Sidekick Security can deliver. Every test is backed by a scope-specific threat model and integrated threat intelligence scenario testing using the CBEST framework. The report details not only the findings, but control and risk observations that may connect a single test to your broader program goals, so that you can communicate risks internally and drive the change that needs to happen.
Targeted Penetration Tests
Ideal for: Organizations needing tests done on specific targets, an application, network, or device.
What you get: A detailed report and letter of attestation that not only provides you with actionable vulnerabilities to address, but strategic guidance about how to improve around those issues.
Continuous & Portfolio Assessments
We know that offensive security is a protective project that never ends, and we can be your security sidekick delivering continuous red and purple team assessments.
We put the assessment, report and recommendations in the context of your holistic security needs, as part of an ongoing process to position your security posture as a strength for the organization.
Continuous & Portfolio Assessments
Ideal for: Organizations needing assessment support against large complicated environments or portfolios of applications.
What you get: A tailored assessment program to suit your needs on the compliance and security front. This includes risk-based assessments that are built to scale as you need them.
Test Anything In Your Environment
Sidekick’s offensive security services cover every corner of your IT environment, identifying vulnerabilities in everything from web applications, cloud services, to embedded devices, helping you stay ahead of attackers.
Web Applications and APIs
Uncover vulnerabilities and understand the compliance readiness in your web applications and APIs, ensuring secure data handling and protection against attacks.
Internal and External Networks
Evaluate the security posture of both internal and external networks and all the devices that make them up, uncovering vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers.
Mobile Applications
Ensure your iOS and Android mobile applications are secure by identifying weaknesses that could data exposure and erode trust with your customers and partners.
OT and Embedded Devices
Evaluate the security of your operational technology (OT) and embedded devices, ensuring that both firmware and communication protocols are secure against modern threats.
Red Team Assessments
Simulate real-world attacks to test your organization’s ability to detect and respond, exposing vulnerabilities before attackers do. Understand how resilient your organization is against high-profile events like ransomware.
Purple Team Assessments
Bring scenario-based offensive security testing with your detection and response teams. Sidekick can work alongside of your MSSP or internal SOC and response teams to give you a truly holistic security assessment and test your readiness.
How Sidekick Does Offensive Security
Framework-Based
Benchmark against industry best practices and map to the compliance standards relevant to your organization whether that’s HIPAA, NIST, SOC2, FedRAMP, PCI etc.
Risk-Driven
Outline and pursue attack goals specific to your industry, tech stack, and network design. Anchored in threat intelligence and threat modeling and tailored to what’s most relevant to you.
Identify Vulnerabilities
Leveraging a combination of automated and manual testing techniques, vulnerabilities ranging from configuration issues to flaws in zero-trust deployments are identified.
Vulnerability Chaining
Vulnerabilities identified are placed in context, and leveraged to identify more critical attack paths than can be seen through a focus on weaknesses individually.
Dual Purpose Reporting
All of Sidekick’s reports contain a threat-based narrative, detailed remediation guidance, and control mappings to satisfy both compliance drivers and the needs of real security.
Trust By Organizations Big and Small
“Sidekick has an exceptional team who provided a very thorough analysis of our security standards. They provided a fair and detailed statement of work, met our requested timeline and were communicative, providing updates along the way. They went above and beyond to provide recommendations for improvements. We highly recommend the team at Sidekick.”
– Co-President, Kalamata Capital Group
What You Get With Sidekick On Your Team
Actionable Knowledge
From segmentation to configuration of networks – internal, external, or cloud – you’ll know what’s there and what it means.
Confidence
Have confidence that you’re meeting your compliance requirements and customers can have trust in your networks.
Full Spectrum Guidance
Receive high impact remediation guidance, control mappings and threat narratives for both tactical and strategic improvement.