Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing

We make sure your business information is safe and secure and that your corporation is protected.

Ethical Hacking

Our team of IT security professionals can play the role of the ethical hacker and attempt to gain access to your business network.  We mimic many of the same actions and use all the same tools and services experienced hackers use everyday.

Invest in having an ethical hacker work their way into your network before the non-ethical hackers do and disrupt your business.

Ethical Hacking is a preventive approach to Information Security: you try to break into your own system to test the security. Ethical Hacking is like the car industry crash tests it is impossible to verify how an airbag in your car works without inducing an accident. However, if the airbag does not work properly during the accident it will be too late to do anything.

Penetration Testing

Many organizations put their trust in our team of IT security specialists each day to make sure their business systems and corporate data is as secure as possible.

An Penetration Test differs from our vulnerability assessment in that it actually exploits known and potential vulnerabilities and determines what information is actually exposed to the outside world. An External Penetration Test mimics the actions of a real hacker and attacker exploiting weaknesses in the network security without disrupting your day-to-day business. This test examines all out facing IT systems for any weakness that could be used by an external hacker to disrupt and expose the confidentiality, availability or integrity of your business network and IT systems.

Our team will work with you and address all findings and offer recommendations on how your can tighten your IT security and keep your business data safe.

The XCEL Penetration Test follows best practice in penetration testing methodologies which includes:

  • Footprinting
  • Public Information & Information Leakage
  • DNS Analysis & DNS Bruteforcing
  • Port Scanning
  • System Fingerprinting
  • Services Probing
  • Exploit Research
  • Manual Vulnerability Testing and Verification of Identified Vulnerabilities
  • Intrusion Detection/Prevention System Testing
  • Password Service Strength Testing
  • Remediation Services if required

Tim Wilson – IT Analyst

Starting his career early, Tim jumped into IT right after high school and became the Systems Administrator for a small financial services company where he performed network and desktop support, application development, data systems migrations, and electronic paper solutions implementations. Looking for more worldly experience, Tim travelled to South Korea and worked for a textile company designing a website and database system.