Offensive Security

“We break things before attackers do”

Real attackers don’t send polite warnings. They probe, exploit, and escalate until they win. Our Offensive Security services simulate those same tactics to uncover your weaknesses across digital and physical domains, helping you fix the flaws before someone else finds them.

External Penetration Testing

What the world sees is what we hack…

We start where attackers start: from the outside. Our team emulates adversaries scanning for exposed services, outdated software, weak credentials, and misconfigured cloud assets. This test focuses on your internet-facing infrastructure like VPNs, firewalls, websites, APIs, cloud instances, and email gateways.

We go beyond automation by chaining vulnerabilities, attempting real exploitation, and showing how deep the rabbit hole goes. Think of it as hiring someone to rob your building just to see how they'd get in and what they'd take.

Key Techniques Used

  • Port and service enumeration

  • Password spraying and credential stuffing

  • SSL and TLS misconfiguration checks

  • Subdomain discovery and DNS mapping

  • Manual exploitation of known and zero-day vulnerabilities

  • Cloud asset exposure (S3 buckets, Azure blobs, etc.)

Compliance Tie-Ins

  • PCI DSS (Req. 11.2, 11.3) – External testing is mandatory

  • HIPAA – Validates safeguards for ePHI on internet-accessible systems

  • SOC 2 (Security and Availability Trust Principles) – Helps meet external risk assessment expectations

  • CMMC and NIST 800-53 – Satisfies AC, SI, and RA control families

Internal Penetration Testing

Assume they’re already in…

Let’s say an attacker phished an employee. Now what? Internal testing assumes the perimeter is breached and evaluates how far an attacker could go.

We simulate a rogue insider or compromised device on your network. This lets us uncover insecure shares, exposed credentials, domain privilege escalation paths, lateral movement potential, and gaps in detection and response. It’s the most eye-opening test for IT teams and often the most valuable.

Key Techniques Used

  • Active Directory enumeration and abuse

  • Kerberoasting and AS REP roasting

  • Credential harvesting from memory and file systems

  • SMB share enumeration and file exploitation

  • Password reuse and brute force

  • Bypassing NAC and weak segmentation

Compliance Tie-Ins

  • NIST 800-53 (AC-6, IA-2, SI-4) – Detect, contain, and mitigate threats

  • CMMC (Level 2 and 3) – Supports Incident Response and Risk Assessment domains

  • HIPAA – Validates internal technical safeguards and access controls

  • ISO 27001 (A.12.6.1) – Tests resilience against malware and intrusions

Web Application Penetration Testing

Your data is on the line…

Your custom web applications are often your most exposed and least protected assets. We dive deep into your portals, dashboards, customer-facing apps, and APIs, manually testing for vulnerabilities that automated scanners miss.

We map your logic, abuse intended workflows, and test every input vector to discover issues like insecure authentication, injection flaws, misconfigured permissions, and insecure APIs.

Key Techniques Used

  • Authentication and session management testing

  • Business logic abuse

  • Cross Site Scripting (XSS), SQL injection, CSRF

  • Access control bypass and privilege escalation

  • Broken object-level and function-level authorization

  • API fuzzing and rate limit testing

Compliance Tie-Ins

  • PCI DSS (Req. 6.5, 11.3.1) – Annual and after significant change testing

  • SOC 2 – Application security is key for the Security Trust Principle

  • OWASP ASVS and Top 10 – We map findings directly to OWASP best practices

  • HIPAA – Ensures web apps with ePHI follow secure development practices

Physical Penetration Testing

Locks, cameras, and complacency…

Cybersecurity starts at the door. If someone can walk in and plug into your network, everything else can fall apart. In this test, we become real world intruders testing your physical defenses and human vigilance.

Our testers may attempt tailgating into buildings, badge cloning, dropping rogue USBs or devices, or accessing unlocked infrastructure. We assess not just the physical systems like doors, cameras, and alarms but the human ones too.

Key Techniques Used

  • Badge cloning and entry bypass

  • Social engineering and tailgating

  • Device planting (Rogue Pi, USB Rubber Ducky)

  • Surveillance and access control mapping

  • Lockpicking and bypass techniques (non destructive)

Compliance Tie-Ins

  • FISMA and NIST 800-53 (PE Family) – Validates physical and personnel access controls

  • CJIS and HIPAA – Enforces access restrictions to sensitive areas and records

  • ISO 27001 (A.11.1) – Physical and environmental controls

  • CMMC (PE.1.131, PE.1.132) – Facility access and escort policies

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