Wireless Network Penetration Testing

What is a wireless network penetration test?

Employing a wireless network can offer greater flexibility, but it comes with greater potential for an attack. From rogue access points to weak encryption algorithms, threats to wireless networks are unique, and the risks can be significant.

Wi-Fi can provide opportunities for attackers to infiltrate your organisation’s secured environment – irrespective of security access controls.

Penetration testing can help identify weaknesses in your wireless infrastructure. It involves:

Identifying vulnerabilities in the wireless infrastructure;

Safely exploiting any identified vulnerabilities; and

Providing a report that contains an ordered list of issues, their associated risk, and remediation advice for identified vulnerabilities.

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It uses both advanced manual testing techniques and automated scans to simulate real-world attacks to identify risks within your organisation, and covers:

Segmentation

Leakage

Secure authentication

Rogue access point detection

Client isolation

Secure configurations

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Did you know?

Wireless networks present less of an obstacle for attackers than wired networks. Criminal hackers generally consider wireless networks to be ideal entry points into an organisation’s systems.

Wireless network traffic is also easily recorded. Criminal hackers can gather proprietary information, logins, passwords, intranet server addresses, and valid network and station addresses. They can steal Internet bandwidth, transmit spam or use your network as a springboard to attack others. They can capture and modify traffic to masquerade as you, with financial or legal consequences.

Benefits of a wireless network penetration test

Our wireless network penetration test will help you:

Identify and understand the technology-related vulnerabilities affecting your wireless infrastructure

Find out how an attacker could move through your wireless infrastructure, escalating their privileges and compromising the corporate network

Understand the potential business impacts of wireless infrastructure vulnerabilities

Demonstrate a strong security posture to clients by providing third-party assurances that your external infrastructure is secure

Comply with ISO 27001, the UK DPA and the GDPR, the PCI DSS, and other laws, regulations and contractual obligations

Protect brand loyalty and corporate image by reducing the likelihood of a security breach

Is a wireless network penetration test right for you?

If you are responsible for your network, you should ask yourself:

Have you identified all your access points? How many unsecured or poorly secured access points are there?

Is data freely flowing through your network without being encrypted?

Are there unauthorised access points on your network?

Is it possible that your IT department could misconfigure or accidentally duplicate a wireless network?

Has the appropriate security been put in place to prevent attacks?

Have you updated wireless protocols to an industry-accepted protocol (WPA2)?

Our wireless network penetration testing methodology

Our Wireless Network Penetration Test follows a proprietary security testing methodology, which is closely aligned with the SANS and OSSTMM (Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual) methodologies.

IT Governance, a GRC Solutions company, uses various tools and techniques to complete the agreed testing.

“[GRC Solutions] combines the delivery of real insights with a cost-effective service.”

– Ian Kilpatrick, Group Information Security Officer at Collinson Group

How GRC Solutions can help you 

Our penetration testing services are provided by IT Governance Ltd, a GRC Solutions company.

CREST-accredited

CREST-accredited penetration testing services give you all the technical assurance you need.

Choose your test

You can choose the level of penetration test to meet your budget and technical requirements.

Straightforward packages

We are pioneers in offering easy-to-understand and quick-to-buy penetration testing.

Reports you can understand

We provide clear reports that can be understood by engineering and management teams alike.

Our penetration tests comply with the Microsoft Rules of Engagement

For Azure clients, this means we take care to limit all penetration tests to your assets, thereby avoiding unintended consequences to your customers or your infrastructure.