Penetration Testing
A real attempt to break into your environment, run against actual objectives — with a remediation plan you can act on, not a PDF to file away.
A penetration test is only useful if it resembles a real attack. Generic automated scans tell you about known CVEs; a proper pen test tells you whether someone with time and motivation could get into your business, and how far they'd get if they did. Those are different questions.
We run internal and external tests scoped around real objectives — what would an attacker actually try to reach? What's valuable, what's exposed, what's the path in? The result is a plain-English report with findings in priority order and a remediation plan that makes sense for your environment. Not a wall of scanner output.
- External penetration test — internet-facing assets, web applications and email attack surface
- Internal penetration test — what an attacker could reach if they got a foothold inside
- Social engineering component where relevant — phishing simulations against named targets
- Plain-English report with findings in priority order, not raw scanner output
- Practical remediation plan scoped to your environment and your team
- Debrief call to walk through findings and answer questions before you action anything
Quick questions
We already run vulnerability scans. Is a pen test different?
Yes. A vulnerability scanner looks for known issues in known places. A pen test asks what a person with time and skill could actually do with those and the things the scanner didn't find. The difference matters — many real-world compromises chain together findings that individually look low-risk.
How disruptive is a pen test to the business?
We schedule around you and agree the scope and approach before anything starts. Testing is done carefully — the goal is to find vulnerabilities, not to actually take things down. If we think something risky is warranted we'll flag it and get explicit sign-off first.
Our insurer is asking for a pen test. Will this satisfy them?
Generally yes, though requirements vary between policies and underwriters. We can tailor the scope and deliverables to match what your insurer has asked for. If you send us the requirement, we'll tell you straight whether what we run will cover it.
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