A scan tells you what's theoretically vulnerable. A penetration test proves what an attacker could actually reach, how long it takes them, and what it would cost you. We do both, and we're clear about which is which.
Give us one internet-facing IP address you own and we'll run a real external penetration test against it — no agent, no cost, findings reported back to you.
Authorized testing only. We confirm you own the IP before anything runs.
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Plenty of providers sell the first and invoice for the second. A scan lists what might be wrong; a pen test proves what an attacker can do with it. Here's the honest difference.
Software checks your systems against a database of known vulnerabilities and reports what it matched.
A purpose-built platform actually attempts to get in — exploiting and chaining weaknesses the way a real attacker would, then stopping short of harm.
Most organizations should scan continuously and pen test annually — or after any significant change to the environment.
They model different attackers and find different things. Most organizations need both — one proves the perimeter holds, the other proves a breach doesn't become a catastrophe.
Not sure which you need? Start with the free external test on one public IP. It costs nothing and tells you whether the perimeter question is even the urgent one.
Scope Both TestsWe run testing on an automated attack platform that reproduces the techniques a real intruder uses — enumeration, credential attacks, relay and man-in-the-middle, privilege escalation — and safely exploits what it finds rather than just flagging it. Our engineers scope the test, review every finding, and walk you through what matters.
The advantage is repeatability. Consultant-led testing is expensive enough that most businesses do it once a year and hope. This is affordable enough to run quarterly, so your report reflects the environment you have now — not the one you had ten months ago.
Testing is scoped to your environment and budget. Most clients start with external and phishing, then widen.
Everything facing the internet: firewalls, VPN endpoints, mail servers, exposed services and forgotten hosts.
Assumes a foothold — a compromised laptop or a contractor's access — and measures how far it spreads.
Your customer portal, booking system, or internal tools — authentication, access control, injection, business logic.
A simulated campaign against your staff, measuring click rates, credential entry, and whether anyone reports it.
Guest and corporate Wi-Fi separation, weak authentication, and rogue access points on your premises.
Tenant configuration, identity, conditional access, storage permissions and over-privileged accounts.
Agree targets, methods, timing, and rules of engagement in writing. Nothing is tested without explicit authorization.
Map the real attack surface — often including assets you'd forgotten were exposed to the internet.
The platform safely exploits what it finds and chains weaknesses together to establish genuine impact rather than theory.
Executive summary, technical detail with reproduction steps, and a walkthrough call with your team.
Once you've remediated, we verify the fixes actually closed the finding — and didn't open something new.
Testing windows are agreed in advance. If we find something critical mid-engagement, you hear about it that day — not in the report.
Every finding is ranked by real-world exploitability, not just CVSS score — because a critical vulnerability behind three other controls matters less than a medium one facing the internet.
You get an executive summary for the board, technical detail with reproduction steps for whoever fixes it, and remediation guidance in priority order. A retest confirms the fixes worked.
Categories shown are typical of what testing surfaces. Your report reflects your environment.
A penetration test is accurate the week it's run. New vulnerabilities land constantly, and your environment changes — so annual testing alone leaves long gaps.
Pairing testing with our Security Operations Center closes them: ethical hackers find what's exploitable, the SOC watches for anyone attempting it. Together they cover organizations of any risk profile.
Security Operations CenterWe'll run a genuine external penetration test against one public IP address that you own, and report what we find. There's no catch and no obligation — it's scoped to a single IP because that's what we can do at no cost. A full engagement covers your whole external range, or your internal network, and that's quoted normally.
External models an attacker on the internet with no access, testing your perimeter — website, mail, VPN, public IPs. Internal assumes someone is already inside and measures how far they get: privilege escalation, weak segmentation, and the path to your domain controller. External needs no agent; internal needs one agent deployed on the LAN.
The testing itself runs on an automated attack platform — it performs the same enumeration, exploitation and privilege-escalation techniques an intruder would, consistently and far faster than a person. Our engineers scope each engagement, review the findings, remove noise, and debrief you. We'd rather be straight about that than imply a consultant is hand-typing commands for a week. The trade-off is real: highly bespoke business-logic flaws in a custom application are still better found by a specialist consultant, and we'll say so if that's what you need.
It shouldn't, and we scope it so it doesn't. Genuinely disruptive techniques are excluded by default or run in a maintenance window you choose. The rules of engagement are agreed in writing before anything starts, and you'll have a contact who can stop the test immediately.
Annually is the common baseline, plus after any significant change — a new application, an office move, a merger, a major infrastructure project. Scanning should run continuously in between, because the gap between annual tests is where most exposure accumulates.
Increasingly, yes. SOC 2, PCI DSS, and many cyber insurance applications either require testing or price it in. Client contracts are the other common driver. Tell us who's asking and we'll make sure the report format satisfies them.
You hear about it that day, with immediate containment advice — we don't sit on a critical finding until the report is polished. If it's actively being exploited, that becomes an incident response conversation rather than a testing one.
If you want us to. Phishing simulation measures how many people click, how many enter credentials, and — more usefully — how many report it. We'd recommend agreeing in advance how results are handled internally, because the point is to improve training, not to discipline anyone.
The report includes remediation guidance in priority order, and the debrief call is for working through it with your team. If you'd rather we did the remediation work, that's a separate engagement quoted separately — we'll never make the report deliberately unusable to force that.
Tell us what you need to prove and to whom — a client, an insurer, an auditor, or your own board — and we'll scope testing that answers it without gold-plating.
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