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Simulated attacks that reveal how real adversaries would breach you.
Penetration testing is a manual, authorized attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in your systems the way a real attacker would, in order to prove, not just guess at, your actual security risk.
Our penetration testing engagements go beyond automated scanning. Senior testers manually probe your environment the way a motivated attacker would, chaining low-severity issues into high-impact compromise paths.
Every engagement is scoped to your environment and risk profile, whether that's an external network perimeter, an internal environment post-breach simulation, or a specific application release.
For stakeholders, a penetration test turns abstract risk into a concrete, prioritized list, so security spend goes toward the issues that would actually cause damage, not just the ones that are easiest to fix.
Remediating a vulnerability before it's exploited is consistently cheaper than recovering from a breach, in incident response costs, downtime, regulatory exposure, and reputational damage. Testing is the lower-cost side of that trade-off.
Attackers don't wait for you to notice the gap.
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areas covered
Live from our own KEV archive
Every penetration test accounts for what's confirmed under active exploitation right now, scored against FIRST.org's own probability model, not a static checklist from last year's methodology.
Exploit-priority tracker
LiveTracked, all-time
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EPSS ≥ 0.5
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Ransomware-linked
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Ransomware-linked share of the full catalog
From recon to validated finding
nmap and nikto do the recon. A tester in Burp Repeater does the part that actually matters , proving a finding is real by exploiting it by hand.
$ nmap -sV -p- app.demo-corp.io
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org )
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 8.9
80/tcp open http nginx 1.24.0
443/tcp open https nginx 1.24.0
8080/tcp open http-proxy Jenkins 2.401 ← unexpected, not in scope docs
Nmap done: 1 IP address scanned in 41.2s
An illustrative walkthrough of how an engagement actually runs, not footage from a real client environment.
Process
Define targets, rules of engagement, and success criteria.
Map the attack surface and identify entry points.
Manually validate and chain vulnerabilities to demonstrate real impact.
Assess business risk and root cause for every finding.
Deliver a clear, prioritized report with remediation guidance.
Verify fixes and confirm closure of identified issues.
Automated scanning identifies known signatures. Our testers manually validate, chain, and exploit weaknesses to prove real-world impact, and surface issues scanners miss, like business logic flaws and chained privilege escalation.
Yes. We scope engagements to match the level of access and information appropriate for your goals, from zero-knowledge external testing to fully credentialed internal reviews.
Yes. Every finding is classified against the OWASP Top 10 (or the relevant CWE for non-web findings), and where applicable, mapped to the specific MITRE ATT&CK tactic and technique it enables, so the report shows both what the flaw is and how it fits into a realistic attack chain.
Both, but the testing itself is manual. We use scanning and custom tooling to speed up reconnaissance, but a person decides what to test next based on what's already been found, that's what makes it a real penetration test rather than a scan with a report attached.
Yes. We regularly scope engagements for organizations working toward NIS2 Article 21's risk-management measures or DORA's broader ICT testing obligations. Threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) under DORA Articles 26–27 is a narrower, regulator-designated program most entities won't need, we can help clarify which obligation actually applies to you.
Our methodology for pentesting is grounded in established, publicly available frameworks, not a proprietary checklist.
Share a few details about your environment and we'll help you scope the right engagement.