Continuous Penetration Testing

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Maintain and improve your security posture year-round with continuous penetration testing – an ongoing, real-time, and holistic security strategy, offering greater protection against cyber threats.

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What is continuous penetration testing?

Continuous penetration testing is a proactive and iterative approach to identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in an organization’s systems and networks. Unlike traditional or physical penetration testing, which is typically conducted at specific intervals (e.g., annually or biannually), continuous penetration testing involves regular, ongoing assessments to ensure that security defenses remain robust and responsive to emerging threats.

Our Continuous Security Testing Services

We offer interlocking cyber threat intelligence (CTI), managed vulnerability scanning (MVS), phishing assessments, penetration tests, and red team assessments as part of a combined security package. These are offered as a series of recurring monthly, quarterly, and yearly undertakings to minimise your risk.

Our Continuous Testing packages are tailored to meet your objectives, risk appetite, and budget. Below, you can see an example of a fully managed PTaaS package, which includes Continuous Testing. Whether you opt for phishing assessments or AI penetesting, the Rootshell Platform enables you to pick and choose the services that best fit your organisation.

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The benefits of continuous pen testing

Bolster your security strategy and ensure year-round protection with continuous security testing.

  • Year-round protection: A lot can happen between annual penetration tests. Our continuous service tests your digital infrastructure year-round, so you can ensure your security posture is maintained and improved on an ongoing basis.
  • Prepare for a real-world attack: Penetration tests are one of the most effective ways to evaluate your security posture. By emulating the tactics, techniques, procedures used by hackers, our services truly put your organisation’s defences to the test.
  • Uncover critical vulnerabilities: As the risk of cyber attacks continues to increase, it’s crucial you have complete visibility of your organisation’s vulnerabilities. Our continuous pen testing service identifies any vulnerabilities, from low to high risk, so you can take action.
  • Effectively remediate risk: Continuous pen testing provides you with the data you need to resolve vulnerabilities. Our penetration testers offer expert support so you can remediate as quickly and effectively as possible.
  • Comply with security standards: Carrying out penetration testing is essential for meeting and maintaining a number of different regulatory standards. Our CREST-certified continuous pen testing will ensure your organisation is compliant.

View results from your continuous testing services in a single consolidated interface

The Rootshell Platform is a vendor-agnostic vulnerability management solution that puts you at the centre of your IT security ecosystem. Consolidate assessment results, accelerate remediation from start to finish, and gain real-time insight into your ever-changing threat landscape.

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Why Rootshell’s Continuous Testing services?

We’re proud to be a trusted provider of continuous security testing for some of the UK’s largest organisations.

  • Perfect blend of automation & manual consultancy: Although automation plays a significant role, Rootshell does not wholly rely an automated testing and exploitation; manual consultancy plays a huge part.
  • CREST-certified pen testing: CREST is an internationally recognised accreditation for penetration testing services. Our CREST-certified testers work to the highest technical and ethical standards.
  • Quality assured: We deliver our pen testing services to industry standards, such as Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) guidelines, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES).
  • Expert advice and support: Our highly experienced testers provide you with expert guidance and support throughout. You will receive clear reports and advice, along with step-by-step instructions, ensuring you know exactly how to remediate and reduce risk.
  • Remote penetration testing: Our pen testing devices enable our testers to remotely access your organisation from our secure Security Operation Centre (SOC). This allows your organisation to operate as normal whilst conducting continuous penetration testing.

Frequently Asked Questions about Continuous Pen Testing

Penetration testing services, also known as pen testing services, assess an organisation’s networks, systems, and applications for security weaknesses. Our penetration testing services safely utilise the same methods as real-world threat actors to identify vulnerabilities before they can be exploited; vulnerabilities that could otherwise lead to security breaches. Our CREST-certified penetration testers provide the expert guidance needed to help successfully remediate issues and keep your organisation secure.

Continuous penetration testing is a proactive and iterative approach to identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities in an organization’s systems and networks. Unlike traditional penetration testing, which is typically conducted at specific intervals (e.g., annually or biannually), continuous penetration testing involves regular, ongoing assessments to ensure that security defenses remain robust and responsive to emerging threats.

We bill continuous security testing services on an annual, quarterly, or monthly basis.

We can perform penetration testing services on a range of systems, including but not limited to: web applications, mobile applications, wireless networks, operating systems, hardware devices, and firewalls.

Yes. We can deploy a remote penetration testing box to your site, which enables our testers to remotely access your organisation from our SOC. Our testers can then carry out penetration testing services as though they were on-site.

We use a wide range of established and emerging malicious threat actor techniques to carry out your penetration testing services.

A penetration test simulates a real-world attack on your organisation’s network, applications, and systems to identify any weaknesses. A pen test is conducted by skilled consultants, who use the same techniques as real-word hackers; you can think of it as ‘ethical hacking’. On the other hand, vulnerability scanning is carried out using automated tools and solely focuses on identifying vulnerabilities within software. Find out more about vulnerability and penetration testing services.

We offer a range of penetration testing services. Our security consultants can help advise which types of pen testing services your organisation needs.

Contact us today for Continuous Penetration Testing services