Wireless Testing

Wireless Testing

With the ubiquity of mobile devices in today’s workplace, from tablets to smartphones, the expectation from employees, contractors and business partners is often that a wireless network will be available at their place of work. Often implementation of these wireless networks can be a source of weakness due to poor configuration or use of protocols with fundamental flaws. Add to this the fact that these wireless networks often propagate beyond the physical boundaries of the corporate estate and they can be a point of vulnerability for these organisations.

To provide assurance over how these wireless networks affect the overall security posture of an organisation, ProCheckUp can perform a series of simulated attacks on the corporate Wi-Fi, including Denial of Service (DoS), authentication enumeration and attempts to access wired Ethernet based networks which should be inaccessible from the wireless networks as well as general network segregation assessments. ProCheckUp can also complete a mapping exercise to show the footprint of the companies’ wireless networks, both internally and externally, and demonstrate how far they reach beyond the external physical perimeter of the organisation. The key points covered by ProCheckUp’s wireless testing methodology are highlighted in the diagram below.

At the end of any ProCheckUp assessment the final deliverable is a technical report which includes full details of all issues identified (along with recommended remediation steps) as well as an executive summary (management) section which includes a high-level description of the higher-risk security issues identified. Both CVSS scoring and a ProCheckUp risk rating are provided for each issue to ensure that their impact and severity can be easily understood. It should be noted that immediate notification of any serious security vulnerabilities (i.e. those rated as high or critical risk) will be made to a designated client point(s) of contact throughout the engagement to ensure a close working relationship between ProCheckUp and their clients.

The types of tools which may be used include (but are not limited to) the following:

• AirPcapNX
• Alfa USB WiFi card
• WiFi Pineapple
• Garmin GPSMAP
• Aircrack-ng
• Kismet
• Wireshark

contact us to discuss your Wi-Fi needs in more detail.

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