Network Penetration Testing for Financial Services companies in New Orleans
Network Penetration Testing for Financial Services in New Orleans
Financial institutions in New Orleans and across Louisiana are under constant pressure from cybercriminals looking to steal or extort sensitive data, including customer account information, payment data, and confidential trading or lending records. Common attack methods—such as phishing, ransomware, credential theft, SQL injection, and malware—are specifically designed to bypass traditional IT security controls and quietly access this information.
The financial impact of a successful breach is significant. In 2021, the median reported cost of a data breach reached $4.24M, and that figure likely understates the real damage, as many incidents are never reported. For banks, credit unions, wealth managers, payment processors, and insurance providers, a major breach can quickly become both a regulatory incident and a reputational crisis.
Network penetration testing (net-pen testing) is a controlled, ethical hacking exercise where security professionals simulate real-world attacks on your network, applications, and endpoints. The goal is simple: find weaknesses before criminals do. A well-executed penetration test helps leadership:
Understand which systems, applications, and data are most exposed
Validate the effectiveness of existing security controls and monitoring
Support compliance efforts for regulations and standards affecting financial services, such as GLBA, PCI DSS, SOX, and state-level privacy laws
Prioritize cybersecurity investments based on real, evidence-backed risk
Louisiana Network Penetration Testing Experience
OCD Tech provides network penetration testing and IT security assessments to financial services companies in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana. Our clients include regional and community banks, credit unions, specialty lenders, insurance providers, and fintech organizations that process sensitive financial data across complex, modern infrastructures.
Our team combines hands-on penetration testing expertise with strong knowledge of financial-sector regulatory expectations. This means our work does more than demonstrate that a system can be hacked—it clearly explains:
How an attacker could move from an initial foothold to customer data or payment systems
What specific security gaps enabled that access (technical, process, or human)
What practical, prioritized remediation steps your team should take next
The result is a practical, business-focused security assessment that supports both your cybersecurity strategy and your regulatory and audit requirements.
Network Penetration Testing Methodology
OCD Tech follows a structured, repeatable penetration testing methodology designed to mirror the tactics of modern threat actors while keeping your operations stable. For financial institutions in New Orleans, this approach is especially important given the sensitivity of real-time payment systems and online banking platforms.
Our typical network penetration test includes:
Passive Reconnaissance – Quietly gathering information about your organization, exposed services, and technology stack without direct interaction.
Active Reconnaissance – Safely scanning and probing systems to identify live hosts, open ports, and potential entry points.
Social Engineering – Testing how well employees and contractors resist phishing, pretexting, and other human-focused attacks that commonly target financial services staff.
Exploitation – Attempting to gain initial access by safely exploiting identified vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or weak credentials.
Post-Exploitation – Assessing what an attacker could do after access is obtained, such as viewing sensitive data or pivoting to high-value financial systems.
Privilege Escalation – Attempting to increase access from a standard user to administrative or domain-level control.
Lateral Movement – Simulating how an attacker might move across internal networks, from low-risk systems to critical applications such as core banking or payment processing platforms.
Maintain Access – Demonstrating how long-term unauthorized access could be maintained if not detected by your monitoring and security controls.
Covering Tracks – Showing how an attacker might try to evade logging and detection, informing improvements in your Blue Team monitoring and incident response.
Reporting – Delivering a clear, non-technical executive summary, detailed technical findings, risk ratings, and prioritized remediation guidance tailored to the financial services environment.
This methodology can support different testing goals, including traditional penetration tests, Red Team exercises, assumed-compromise scenarios, and targeted configuration reviews of critical systems.
National Reach
While we frequently work with financial institutions in Louisiana, OCD Tech also provides network penetration testing and cybersecurity consulting across the United States, including:
Contact Our Louisiana Network Penetration Testing Consultants
OCD Tech provides network penetration testing, ethical hacking, and cybersecurity consulting to financial services organizations in New Orleans and across Louisiana. If you would like to discuss how a penetration test can help strengthen your defenses, support your next audit, or validate your current IT security controls, please complete the form below and a member of our team will contact you.
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