Outpost24: Forearming Organisations for Cyber Attacks

As digitalisation is perpetually changing the face of business, the enterprises all around the globe are under tremendous pressure to tighten their cyber-defence. They are doing so, to survive and flourish as they migrate, business-critical applications to the cloud and become more application-centric.

According to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), ‘C-level executives – who have access to a company’s most sensitive information, are now the major focus for social engineering attacks.’ Martin Jartelius, the CSO of Outpost24 and a specialist in security audits, compliance, IT forensics, and penetration testing comments on the report, saying, “Hacking is still playing a huge role in cyber-attacks and reinforces the importance of organisations monitoring for vulnerabilities that can easily be exploited, so they can be remediated and patched before any damage occurs.”

Outpost24 is a leading cyber assessment company focused on enabling their customers to optimise their evolving technology investments through its full-stack security insights to reduce the attack surface for any architecture and keep vulnerabilities in check. The clients continuously improve their security posture with the least effort. One cannot control the threats, but the preparations can be controlled. The company assists its customers in tightening their cyber exposure and improving cyber resilience.

Outpost24 comprises a team of well-experienced ethical hackers, who understand how technology breaks and can protect the clients’ from being broken into. These highly skilled hackers have CISSP, ISSAP, OPSA, CTA, OPST, OPSE and OWSE certifications. They are on a mission to assist the company’s customers in tightening their cyber exposure before their business can be disrupted. Founded in 2001, Outpost24 serves leading organisations across a wide range of segments, including financial and insurance, government, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, technology, and manufacturing.

The solutions provided by Outpost24 are spread in the domains of application security testing, network infrastructure assessment, cloud and container assessment, wireless security assessment and compliance scanning.

Outpost24 comprises a team of well-experienced ethical hackers, who understand how technology breaks and can protect the clients’ from being broken into

For instance, the application security testing solutions provide multi-layered assessment and protection to keep a check on vulnerabilities in apps and websites that a particular business relies on. In the field of agile development, their DevOps security testing solutions cover developer training, automated scanning with agile scenario-based manual testing to obtain the complete view of software vulnerabilities with real-time reports covering threats, scenarios, and prioritised mitigation actions. Further, under network infrastructure assessment, the solutions provided by Outpost24, identify security vulnerabilities and harden the containers to secure them. There is continuous scanning of the architecture, to prevent new weak links from building. Similarly, other security services provided by the company assist the clients in strengthening their security network.

It is because of the reliable security services provided by the company, that over 2000 customers in more than 40 countries around the world trust Outpost24 to assess their devices, networks, applications, cloud and container environments and report compliance status for government, industry sector, or internal regulations. “Implementing Outpost24 has saved our team a lot of time and effort from managing day to day vulnerabilities, allowing us to better understand the risk posture and enabling us to prioritise more effectively,” says Kim Millard, IT Manager of Lomax.

Aiming to keep up their productive work, Outpost24 believes that, they could help eliminate the security blind spots of an organisation by providing continuous full-stack assessment across network, device, application, and cloud. This way, it can give the management sufficient time to focus on strategy, delivering ROI and helping to implement a security lead culture where all the employees are accountable in providing a secure future into the next decade.