Offensive Security & Testing
Penetration testing that finds what a scanner never reaches.
Manual, adversary-led testing of web, mobile and API surfaces, networks and cloud estates. Business logic and authorisation first, because those are the findings that turn into breaches rather than tickets.
- Practice
- Application Security
- Method
- Manual, adversary-led
- Covers
- Web, API, mobile, network, cloud
- Ends with
- Retest & evidence
What is Penetration Testing?
A penetration test is an authorised, simulated attack on your systems to find the weaknesses a real attacker would use, and to prove what they would lead to. Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT) combines broad discovery with hands-on exploitation.
Severity labels describe a vulnerability in isolation; risk is a property of a chain. We write findings as paths, entry point, pivot and consequence, so the report turns into a small number of decisions rather than a queue of tickets.
Who it is for.
- Teams launching or significantly changing a web application, API or mobile app
- Organisations that need test evidence for customers, auditors or certification
- Companies moving workloads to AWS, Azure or GCP
- Security leads who want to know what an external or internal attacker could actually reach
What we do.
Web application testing
Tested by hand for business-logic, authorisation and session flaws that automated tooling cannot reach.
API security testing
Authentication, object- and function-level authorisation, input handling and the tenant boundaries behind partner and public APIs.
Mobile application testing
The app, its local storage and the APIs it depends on.
Network and infrastructure testing
External and internal testing of perimeter, hosts, segmentation and the lateral movement between them.
Cloud penetration testing
AWS, Azure and GCP estates tested for identity paths, exposed services, key material and blast radius.
Red teaming and adversary simulation
Objective-based engagements run against your real detection and response capability.
What actually arrives.
An engagement that ends at a slide deck leaves you with an opinion. These are the artefacts this one produces.
Executive summary
What an attacker could reach and what it would cost the business, for leadership.
Attack-path narratives
How individual findings chain into a real outcome.
Technical findings
Evidence, reproduction steps and a specific fix for each issue.
Prioritised remediation plan
Ranked by consequence rather than severity label, so design-level fixes that close many findings come first.
Retest and evidence pack
Verified closure, documented for customers and auditors.
Frequently asked questions.
- What is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test?
- A vulnerability assessment finds and lists weaknesses. A penetration test goes further and exploits them, to establish what an attacker could actually reach and do. VAPT engagements combine both.
- How do you scope a penetration test?
- By objective, not by asset count. 'Establish whether an external attacker can reach customer data, and how' produces a decision; 'test these forty hosts' produces coverage. The scoping conversation determines the value of the engagement more than the testing does.
- Who does the testing?
- Senior practitioners, directly. There is no handoff to a junior bench after the sales conversation.
- Is a retest included?
- We recommend it for every engagement, because it turns the report into evidence that fixes hold. It is agreed as part of the scope.
Next step
Talk to us about Penetration Testing.
Start with a scoping conversation.
Describe the system and the decision you need to make. You will get a practitioner's view of where the risk actually sits, and what the engagement should cover, before anything is scoped.