Our Services
Markus Alliance is dedicated to providing the highest quality penetration testing and compliance services in the industry.
Penetration Testing
Like nearly every company on the planet, your company’s software applications and network devices contain sensitive information, which makes you a prime target for hackers that want to steal and monetize this information. Penetration testing, aka pen testing, is one of the primary defense mechanisms for protecting your IT assets and sensitive data.
Automated scanning tools are an important part of pen testing, but without the manual testing and verification of an experienced security engineer, your assets and data are just not protected. With decades of experience and thousands of pen tests to our credit, our security engineers will make sure that your private data stays private.
If your IT environment is constantly evolving and software releases are occurring on a regular basis, it might be time to consider perpetual pen testing to guarantee that your security posture is evolving as well.
Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) is the way to achieve this, as it elevates traditional pen testing to the next level by taking your testing strategy from a snapshot-in-time approach to a continuous testing model.
PTaaS includes the following services & activities:
- Comprehensive baseline pen test of your chosen targets
- Quarterly pen testing of all assets
- Unlimited remediation testing to validate findings
- Unlimited report updates
- Perpetual monitoring for zero-day vulnerabilities
Over 95% of today’s enterprises use cloud computing to support their business. That stat may be unfamiliar to you, but you can be certain that hackers know it well. That’s why performing a comprehensive cloud pen test is vitally important to maximize your cloud security.
As with other forms of pen testing, the primary goal is to find security issues before the hackers do. What makes cloud pen testing different is the fact that you don’t own the equipment that is being tested, so there are several legal and technical challenges to performing these tests.
We are well versed on the rules and regulations associated with cloud testing, and we will ensure that your environment is thoroughly tested while maintaining strict adherence to the regulations put forth by your cloud provider.
Our vast experience and proprietary testing methodologies are what set us apart from other service providers. While automated scans are a vital part of the testing process, manual testing performed by an experienced security engineer is the key to successful pen testing. The only way to effectively simulate what a hacker can do is to use the same tactics, and we are uniquely qualified to provide you with the most experienced engineers and comprehensive testing available in the market today.
Network penetration testing is your company’s risk-free opportunity to determine the extent to which your IT networks can be compromised without the fear of losing sensitive customer data and ending up as the latest headline on every news source across the internet.
Markus’s network pen testing is a comprehensive examination of your networks, systems, hosts, and devices to identify the most significant security vulnerabilities by purposefully using nefarious techniques to test the network’s security responses.
In order to help your IT staff quickly remediate any identified exposures, we provide customized reports that include a detailed listing of each exploit detected during the testing, along with specific recommendations for effectively remediating and securing your IT environment.
Mobile apps are being used by virtually everyone with a phone these days, and these devices are constantly connecting to your corporate networks. As a result, managing the security risk on these platforms is vitally important to the protection of your sensitive data.
Markus offers best-in-class mobile app testing by providing a risk-based approach to mobile security. We provide deep dive testing into localized security issues, back-end web services, and the API’s which connect them.
We use the same tools and techniques as hackers, thus providing detailed visibility into security vulnerabilities – without the associated business risk. Our customized methodology ensures each test is conducted safely and is focused on the unique needs of your organization.
IT Compliance
Data breaches are all over the news these days, and, often times, they are a direct result of a lack of adherence to compliance standards. The cost of such breaches can be substantial from both a financial and reputational perspective.
At Markus Alliance, our team has decades of experience with a wide range of compliance standards. We are well equipped to assist your organization with assessments, audits, security testing or advisory services to ensure compliance with your chosen standard and provide optimal protection from associated data breaches.
HIPAA has always been seen as a complicated and comprehensive law that consumes a great deal of time and resources to maintain compliance. The reason for this is that protected health information is extremely valuable to criminals and hackers and the cost of violations can be crippling to an organization.
At Markus Alliance, our deep expertise with HIPAA allows us to assess your organization’s compliance readiness, and we are ready to help you shore up your defenses whenever gaps in your policies and procedures exist.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the FBI has reported about 2,000-3,000 more cybersecurity complaints each day from the typical 1,000 a day. We are aware of the most up-to-date trends in cybersecurity, and we are constantly updating our proprietary assessment tools to ensure that your patient data is safe and secure.
Consulting
Let’s face it, cyber security is hard. You have to constantly and carefully consider every IT asset, employee, sensitive piece of data, security policy, etc. The list seems endless, and, frankly, it can be overwhelming.
Markus Alliance can help you simplify these efforts with a comprehensive range of proprietary solutions that are designed to thoroughly evaluate and validate your IT testing, controls and compliance, with a goal of optimizing your organization’s security posture.
Software development training has historically focused on educating developers on how to write the most innovative and efficient code to do anything from simplifying repetitive tasks to solving some of the world’s most complex problems. One element that has been conspicuously absent from that training is a focus on secure coding techniques.
Secure code reviews provide an opportunity fill this gap by utilizing automated code scanning technologies combined with manual analysis from highly experienced developers who have advanced training in secure coding strategies and techniques.
Markus Alliance’s experts can supplement your development efforts to help reduce the number of security vulnerabilities entering production, as well as through knowledge sharing regarding the use of secure coding practices to foster consistent and easily maintainable codebases across your organization.
Cloud hosting services are robust and comprehensive, but not without risks. Cloud security is a shared responsibility between cloud providers and customers. Cloud providers are responsible for the security of their infrastructure, while customers are responsible for securing their data and applications.
Cloud security audits are necessary to ensure that cloud-hosted applications and data are kept safe from unauthorized access and theft. It’s an inspection of the security controls used to protect data and other assets in the cloud.
Our cloud security audit will help you identify compliance risks and provide recommendations for remediation. The ultimate goal is to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data, and to make sure your organization is compliant with industry regulations and standards.
Technology assessments are vital to establishing a robust security program, but your security posture can’t be considered complete without examining its most vulnerable component, people. Employees are the primary gateway to an organization’s sensitive data, and nearly 90% of security breaches begin with human error.
As a result, social engineering engagements have become an essential part of any well-rounded security program, and Markus Alliance provides a host of social engineering assessments for companies seeking to understand their level of compliance with established security policies.
From remote email phishing and vishing (voice calls), to traditional on-site assessments, our experienced engineers can customize a test plan that is tailored to your environment to ensure your compliance processes are being thoroughly exercised and followed.
According to the U.S. government’s National Security Institute, more than 75% of corporate security breaches originate from inside the organization due to a lack of familiarity with policies and procedures, insufficient user training, and malice, just to name a few. This highlights the fact that your people are both your company’s greatest security asset, and potentially your greatest security liability.
Markus Alliance provides education and awareness training that will ensure a more secure future for your organization and, ultimately, your customers. Our security awareness solutions include:
- On-site seminars for you and your staff
- Online training with live instructors
- Individualized coaching for your management team
At the heart of every highly functional organization are policies and procedures designed to help them operate consistently and efficiently throughout the company to reduce risk and liability.
Markus Alliance offers a variety of practical, flexible and cost effective information security policies to address your company’s goals and risk. We have a library of customizable templates that provide immediate guidance and results for your policy and procedure development.
Policies and procedure development is not always the most exciting undertaking, but the benefits to your security program are undeniable:
- Reduce company risk and liability
- Provide consistency across the organization
- Guidance for handling threats, vulnerabilities and security incidents
- Ensure adherence to regulatory compliance requirements
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