Penetration Testing
Manual, real-world attack simulation to uncover the vulnerabilities that scanners miss. Our certified consultants test the way real attackers operate — and give you the intelligence to fight back.
About This Service
Penetration testing — or pen testing — is a structured, authorised simulation of a real-world cyberattack against your systems, networks, or applications. Unlike automated vulnerability scanning, penetration testing uses the same tools, techniques, and mindset as actual threat actors to find what could genuinely be exploited.
The goal is not to produce a list of known CVEs — it is to demonstrate exploitability, chain findings into realistic attack paths, and give your organisation evidence-based assurance of what an attacker could actually achieve. Every engagement is manual, every finding is verified, and every report is written to help your team act.
OWASP Testing Guide, PTES, NIST SP 800-115, MITRE ATT&CK
Typical Timeline: 3–15 days depending on service and scope
Report: Executive summary + full technical findings
Retest: Complimentary, included in every engagement
Standards: OWASP, NIST, PTES, MITRE ATT&CK
Confidentiality: NDA signed before any technical discussion
Our Services
We test every layer of your attack surface — from external perimeters and web applications to cloud infrastructure, mobile apps, and emerging AI systems.
Full-scope, multi-vector assessment simulating an advanced threat actor across your entire enterprise environment.
Internal and external network attack simulation identifying exploitable misconfigurations and lateral movement paths.
OWASP-aligned manual testing covering authentication, access control, injection, and business logic vulnerabilities.
Comprehensive testing of REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs against the OWASP API Security Top 10.
iOS and Android security assessment including static analysis, dynamic testing, and backend API review.
Emerging threat testing for AI-powered applications — prompt injection, data leakage, and LLM integration security.
AWS, Azure, and GCP security testing — IAM review, storage exposure, and privilege escalation paths.
Objective-driven adversarial simulation testing your detection, response, and resilience against a persistent attacker.
Multi-tenancy isolation, business logic, and SaaS-specific OWASP risks for cloud-based platforms.
On-site Wi-Fi security assessment identifying rogue access points, weak encryption, and network access paths.
Systematic, manually validated identification and prioritisation of security weaknesses across your infrastructure.
Coverage
Our engagements cover every layer of your attack surface. Coverage is agreed during scoping and documented in every report.
External attack surface — internet-facing systems, applications, and exposed ports
Internal network — lateral movement paths, privilege escalation, domain compromise
Web applications — OWASP Top 10 and beyond, including business logic flaws
APIs — REST, SOAP, and GraphQL endpoints against OWASP API Security Top 10
Mobile applications — iOS and Android static and dynamic analysis
Cloud environments — AWS, Azure, and GCP IAM configuration and access review
AI and LLM integrations — prompt injection, data leakage, and model abuse scenarios
Wireless networks — Wi-Fi protocols, rogue access points, and WPA2/3 weaknesses
Social engineering — phishing simulation and security awareness validation
Physical security — where explicitly in-scope and relevant to the engagement
Our Methodology
Our methodology is built around the way real attackers operate — not a compliance checklist. Every engagement follows five phases designed to maximise finding depth and minimise disruption to your business.
Agree targets, rules of engagement, and objectives before anything starts. You approve the scope in writing. Nothing is tested without your explicit sign-off.
Map your attack surface the way a real attacker would — passive information gathering, technology fingerprinting, and exposure analysis before active testing begins.
Manual testing using real-world tools and techniques. We actively attempt to exploit identified vulnerabilities to demonstrate real-world impact — not just theoretical risk.
Where in-scope, assess what an attacker could achieve after initial compromise — lateral movement, privilege escalation, and access to sensitive data or systems.
Dual-audience report: executive summary with business impact ratings, and a full technical report with CVSS scores, proof-of-concept evidence, and step-by-step remediation guidance.
After your team remediates findings, we verify that critical and high-severity issues are resolved. We issue a formal retest certificate at no additional cost.
Deliverables
Risk overview and headline findings written for a non-technical audience — leadership-ready with clear business impact ratings.
Every vulnerability documented with classification, CVSS score, proof-of-concept evidence, and step-by-step reproduction instructions.
Fix instructions written for the development or infrastructure team, including code-level guidance where applicable.
Documents which OWASP, NIST, or framework risk categories were tested and the findings within each — accepted by auditors.
Formal confirmation that all critical and high findings have been remediated — accepted by enterprise procurement and compliance auditors.
Structured evidence bundle formatted for ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, or HIPAA auditors — maps findings and coverage directly to the relevant framework controls.
Why Us
Automated tools find known signatures. Our certified consultants find the chained attack paths, logic flaws, and context-specific vulnerabilities that no scanner will surface. Every finding is manually verified — zero false positives.
Every finding includes a proof-of-concept, a CVSS risk score, and step-by-step remediation guidance written for the team that has to fix it. Your developers and your board both get a report they can use.
We sign a formal NDA before any technical discussion begins. Your vulnerabilities, architecture, and engagement findings are treated with the same confidentiality as attorney-client communications.
Every engagement includes a complimentary retest. We verify that your team’s remediations hold and issue a formal retest certificate confirming all findings have been addressed.
Every engagement is delivered by our own certified professionals — OSCP, CEH, eJPT. We never outsource your testing to third-party contractors.
Every engagement is quoted at a fixed fee — the price in the proposal is the price on the invoice. No hourly overruns, no scope creep billing. You know exactly what you’re paying before we start.
You Might Also Need
Penetration testing is a key control under ISO 27001. We deliver the test and support your wider certification programme.
SOC 2 Type II requires evidence of regular security testing. We provide the pen test report your auditor needs.
Not ready for a full pen test? A vulnerability assessment gives you a validated baseline — and we’ll advise when to step up.
FAQ
A vulnerability assessment identifies and catalogues known weaknesses using automated tools with manual validation. A penetration test goes further — our consultants actively attempt to exploit those vulnerabilities to demonstrate real-world impact and chain findings into realistic attack scenarios. Both are valuable, but a pen test provides stronger evidence for compliance reporting and board assurance.
It depends on the service and scope. A focused web application test typically takes 3–5 days. A network pen test runs 5–10 days. A red team engagement can run 2–4 weeks. We scope every engagement individually and provide a clear, fixed timeline in our proposal.
Yes. Every engagement produces an executive summary and a full technical report. For compliance engagements — ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS — we tailor the report format to your framework and cover the specific evidence requirements your auditor needs. We also issue a retest certificate confirming findings have been remediated.
Yes, always. We sign a mutual NDA before any technical discussion begins. Your infrastructure details, findings, and results are never disclosed. Confidentiality obligations survive the end of the engagement.
We write detailed remediation guidance for every finding — step-by-step fix instructions for the developers or engineers who have to do the work. After your team remediates, we conduct a complimentary retest to verify fixes hold and issue a formal retest certificate at no additional cost.
Book a free scoping call — tell us about your environment and we’ll recommend the right service and send a fixed-fee proposal within 24 hours.
