Proactive Defence

Evaluate your defences against evolving threats.

Testing the components of your IT environment is an ongoing challenge. Staying ahead requires understanding the latest attack techniques and evaluating your defences against evolving threats. This proactive approach is crucial for enhancing your cybersecurity posture.

Proactively Testing Your Cybersecurity Resilience

Explore NSP’s Penetration Testing to simulate real cyberattacks and identify vulnerabilities in your people, processes, and technology.

Uncovering
vulnerabilities

Identifying vulnerabilities goes beyond mere environmental scans; it requires a comprehensive approach to stop today’s sophisticated attacks.

Exploiting identified vulnerabilities

Discovering a vulnerability is one aspect; exploiting it to assess the extent of network and system penetration is another critical step.

Mastering advanced tactics

For effective environment protection, understanding the tactics of potential adversaries is crucial. Mimic their advanced strategies to thoroughly test and fortify your defenses.

The benefits of Penetration Testing

Reduce attack surface

Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities throughout your IT environment, to reduce the attack surface for today’s advanced threats

Priorities security budgets

Prioritise your security budgets where they are needed most, saving money over the long run by preventing wasteful expenditures over the broader security landscape

Test effectiveness of security tools

Test the investments you have made in your cybersecurity tools and technology to determine if any vulnerabilities or gaps exist and whether they can stop a sophisticated attack on your organization

Gain visibility of security gaps

Gain an objective perspective that exposes blind spots and gives you visibility into security gaps that could be missed by your internal IT teams due to a lack of expertise or unfamiliarity with the latest threats

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Our expert team will identify vulnerabilities in your IT infrastructure, applications, and processes.

What NSP delivers

  • Comprehensive Report

  • Tailored Security Recommendations

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Feeling unsure if pen test is essential for your business?

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Schedule a free consultation with NSP’s experts. We’ll guide you through the ins and outs of pen testing, from understanding its purpose and evaluating your risk profile to the thoroughness of the process and how to use the findings to optimise your cybersecurity strategy and propel your business forward.

Talk to a Pen Test Expert

Get in touch with NSP’s cybersecurity experts to discuss penetration testing tailored to your business. Request a consultation today to uncover and fix your security gaps.

Learn more about NSP's Cybersecurity solutions

vCISO

vCISO

Our vCISO service bridges the cybersecurity expertise gap by providing on-demand access to a certified CISO, addressing the challenges of full-time hiring for many businesses.
Email Security Service

Email Security Service

Secure email services offer end-to-end encryption, ensuring that your messages remain confidential, shielded from third-party interception and unauthorsed access.
Security Operations Centre

Security Operations Centre

A unified and well-coordinated approach to monitor, detect, respond to, and promptly remediate cyber threats.
Incident response

Incident response

Immediate, expert guided response, regardless of the attack type – internal breaches, external threats, surveillance concerns, or anything else.
Cybersecurity Assessments

Cybersecurity Assessments

Evaluate your security posture to pinpoint potential vulnerabilities and fortify your defenses against threat actors.

Discover NSP resources on Security

Stay up to date with our resources on Modern Workplace, AI, Cloud, Managed services and Cybersecurity.

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All you need to know about Pen test

This eBook provides business leaders with a practical, concise, and informative guide to taking the most important step towards your digital security. The goal is to gain a good understanding of all you need to know about Pentesting to evaluate your network infrastructure and identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities.