Security Assessment Offensive Testing

External Penetration Testing

Realistic, goal-oriented attacks against your external attack surface — the way real adversaries do it. We replicate threat-actor TTPs to find what your scanners can't.

Capabilities

What's included

Each capability below is a deliverable — included by default in this engagement.

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Reconnaissance & Attack Surface Mapping

Discover everything an attacker would see about your organization — known and unknown.

  • Domain & subdomain enumeration
  • OSINT & employee leak discovery
  • Cloud asset & shadow IT discovery
  • Public credential / secret discovery
  • Asset attribution & ownership mapping
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Port Scanning & Service Enumeration

Map exposed services, versions and behaviors across your perimeter.

  • Full TCP/UDP port discovery
  • Service & version fingerprinting
  • Banner & response analysis
  • Default-credential probing
  • Configuration & exposure review
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Vulnerability Scanning & Exploitation

Find vulnerabilities and prove their real impact through controlled exploitation.

  • Authenticated & unauthenticated scanning
  • Exploitable CVE validation
  • Misconfiguration & weak-cipher discovery
  • Chained-vulnerability proofs
  • False-positive elimination
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Web & Application Layer Attacks

Attack web-facing applications and APIs reachable from the public internet.

  • OWASP Top 10 validation
  • Authentication & session attacks
  • Server-side request forgery (SSRF)
  • File upload & deserialization
  • Business logic exploitation
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Post-Exploitation & Persistence Testing

Once we're in, we test how far we can go — and whether you'd see it.

  • Privilege escalation paths
  • Lateral movement & pivot testing
  • Sensitive data discovery
  • Persistence mechanism testing
  • Detection & response evaluation
Our process

How we deliver

A repeatable, transparent five-step process that respects your time and your team.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Kickoff workshop, scope alignment, and rules of engagement.

  2. 02

    Assess

    Deep, hands-on assessment by senior specialists with daily check-ins.

  3. 03

    Recommend

    Prioritized findings, business-impact scoring, and remediation roadmap.

  4. 04

    Implement

    Side-by-side support with your team to fix the issues that matter most.

  5. 05

    Validate

    Retest, sign-off and clear evidence-of-remediation for stakeholders.

Deliverables

What you walk away with

Executive report

Plain-English summary mapped to business impact for the leadership team.

Technical findings

Detailed write-ups with reproduction steps, evidence and severity.

Remediation roadmap

Prioritized, time-boxed plan your team can execute without us.

Live readout

60-90 minute live debrief with engineering, product and leadership.

Engagement options

Three ways to work with us

One-time engagement

Best for: launches, audits, fundraises

A focused, fixed-scope project with a clear start, end and outcome — perfect when you need a specific result on a tight timeline.

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Quarterly retainer

Best for: continuous improvement

A recurring quarterly engagement with mixed deliverables — assessments, advisory, validations — paced around your roadmap.

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Embedded specialist

Best for: scale-ups & enterprises

A senior specialist embedded with your team for 2-5 days a week, delivering ongoing program leadership and technical depth.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Most engagements run between 2 and 8 weeks depending on scope, however we tailor the timeline to your launch windows, audit deadlines and team capacity.

Ready to get started?

Tell us about your goals — we'll map the right scope and team within 24 hours.

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