Intelligence tagged penetration testing

Your employees aren't failing your phishing tests because they're careless. They're failing because AI-generated attacks now sound exactly like your CFO, your IT team, and your trusted vendors. This article explains why AI phishing attacks have outpaced traditional defenses, and why the fix isn't more training. It's rethinking how your organization governs trust.

Choosing the right offensive cybersecurity service can be challenging, especially with options like red teaming, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments that often appear overlapping. Each service, however, serves a distinct purpose and addresses different aspects of your security needs. To help you make an informed decision, let’s explore the differences between these services and how they align with your organization’s specific cybersecurity goals.

Learn how to locate and exploit Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in modern web applications by understanding client-side and server-side code interactions, CSRF tokens, and SameSite cookie policies.

Traditional penetration testing may not be enough to simulate real-world attack scenarios. Discover the benefits of adversarial-based red teaming with the TIBER-EU Framework to improve your organization's ability to detect, respond to, and mitigate sophisticated attacks.

Cybersecurity terms like "red teaming" and "penetration testing" are often used interchangeably, leading to confusion and misinformation. This article explores the differences between these assessments and why the misuse of terms can be detrimental to the industry.

Preparing for the eLearnSecurity Certified Professional Penetration Tester (eCPPTv2) exam? Here are three experiences from the Echelon Offensive Security Team and tips on how to prepare.

If you are a modern-day developer, you’re probably plenty familiar with JSON Web Tokens (JWT’s). They perform their job efficiently when correctly implemented. Unfortunately, they can also be vulnerable to malicious threat actors.

File uploads are ubiquitous, making them a prime target for attackers. Here's how ethical hackers test your resilience against these kinds of attacks.

Are you exposing your company's internal data? Algolia APIs are extremely useful for efficient access to stored data, but the keys used to access them are easily misconfigured and can give attackers access to allow an attacker to launch a site-wide attack.

Many cutting-edge security programs base their defenses on sophisticated, nation-state level threat actors. How, then, have so many of them gotten hacked recently by a new and less-sophisticated group, Lapsus$?

As an organization that stores sensitive medical data, MetaOptima is focused on investing in their security posture. Here's how Echelon Risk + Cyber helped ensure they are functioning at their most secure level.

Threats are continuously evolving - your pen testing should too. As attackers constantly find new vulnerabilities to exploit, a continuous penetration testing approach persistently emulates threat actor activity within a company’s unique environment, helping them stay secure over time.

Bell and Howell partnered with Echelon Risk + Cyber to test the security of their systems, ensuring that they will continue to be protected from future cyberattacks and avoid any future disruption to their systems.

Another year, another penetration test? Attackers are evolving, and so should you. Here are four ways to spice up your pen testing routine to be better prepared and reduce your attack surface.

Over the past year and a half, the worldwide workforce underwent a drastic and rapid paradigm shift that has brought with it new opportunities, attack vectors, and methods to test security. When testing security with penetration testing, partner with a firm using the most modern, advanced tactics to test your readiness for tomorrow’s attackers.