Penetration testing for Zeppelin, a global CAT dealer

Zeppelin creates powerful solutions in construction and mining machinery (e.g. CAT/Caterpillar dealer), agricultural machinery, rental, construction logistics and site management, drive and energy, engineering, and plant construction. They also develop new digital business models for the construction industry.

Zeppelin Group operates 220 branches worldwide with over 10,000 employees and net sales of 3.9 billion EUR in fiscal 2023.

The need for external expertise on an ongoing basis to ensure uninterrupted operation of the corporate network infrastructure and a high level of protection against cyber threats.

During pentesting, a full set of common pentester tools was used — but the main key to success was manual analysis: interconnecting individual vulnerability exploitation results to escalate privileges and demonstrate practical IT-infrastructure compromise.

Comprehensive and continuous penetration testing of Zeppelin provided an in-depth assessment, identifying vulnerabilities and practical attack vectors and demonstrating potential damage.

Results at each stage were instantly transmitted to engineers maintaining the network infrastructure for priority remediation. Subsequent re-testing was continuously conducted, providing a high level of protection against cyber threats.