Issue 12 2021

Oct21590 Cyber Readiness of the 21st Century Pentera is a leading global team dedicated to changing the current approach to cybersecurity through Automated Security Validation. Its vision is to empower the organization’s ability to defend against the worst of cyber attacks by emulating the adversary’s perspective. The gap between the truth and perceptions formulated from sporadic testing and simulations leaves companies increasingly at risk, even as they increase their cybersecurity spending, and that’s where companies like Pentera come into play. Established in 2015, Pentera is the category leader for Automated Security Validation, allowing every organization to test with ease the integrity of all cybersecurity layers, including its ransomware readiness, unfolding accurate, current security exposures at any moment, at any scale. Thousands of security professionals and service providers worldwide use Pentera to guide remediation and close security gaps before they are exploited. In 2020, the company completed its B round funding of $25M with Insight Partners and existing investors, the Blackstone Group and AWZ Ventures, bringing the total investment to $40M. With 400 global enterprise customers across all industries, Pentera is the fastest-growing cyber security start-up in Israel. Pentera is a research-led company with the vision to become the world’s cybersecurity validation authority. It is set to redefine the security outlook of businesses. Its research team builds safe replicas of malware and ransomware into the software, which adds to existing security tests. The same team provides the surgical remediation recipes to counter security gaps when discovered. Recently, the Pentera team identified a zero-day in VMware vCenter, contributing to the cybersecurity community. Every day CISOs accept the near-impossible task of identifying the real risks their organizations face across an ever-growing attack surface. Meanwhile, today’s cybersecurity industry offers only sporadic glimpses of each organization’s true readiness. Without an up to date reading of their true security exposure, security teams cannot be confident they are prepared. Despite the large sums invested, routine Vulnerability Assessments (VA), one-off Penetration Testing (PT) forays and Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) specific path runs cannot provide the whole picture. Thus, fostering a false sense of reassurance offers a partial picture of the true exposure at best. Without an accurate view of which vulnerabilities are real and which are only assumed, enterprise risk rises. Pentera helps organizations worldwide discover their real-world, real-time security exposure by emulating real-life attacks on every cybersecurity layer. By providing the validated, proper remediation roadmap that every organization needs to confidently reduce cybersecurity exposure, the company is spearheading the Automated Security Validation revolution. The platform leverages its orchestrator to scan and ethically attack the network, providing real-time penetration tests at scale. Pentera safely performs the actions a malicious adversary would — reconnaissance, sniffing, spoofing, cracking, (harmless) malware injection, file-less exploitation, post-exploitation, lateral movement, and privilege escalation — all the way to data exfiltration. With Pentera, a company can continuously reduce cyber exposure and maintain the highest resilience by performing validation tests as frequently as needed. Moreover, it allows organizations a better grasp not only of security gaps but also to test the efficiency of the security stack and maintain consistency across the entire organization. Company: Pentera Web Address: www.Pentera.io