Penetration Testing Services help identify vulnerabilities before attackers do, assess security defences, and improve staff awareness.
Our CREST and CHECK-accredited engineers conduct ethical attack simulations to uncover risks across your networks, applications, and cloud environments.
We provide clear insights into misconfigurations and technical weaknesses, strengthening your security posture.
Thousands of organisations across the UK trust us, here’s why…
We are certified for both CREST and CHECK Green Light testing - an achievement not all testing companies can claim.
We are certified in both CREST Infrastructure and Application testing, ensuring comprehensive security coverage for all your systems.
Our team consists of highly experienced, senior consultants and penetration testers with over 15 years of industry expertise.
We establish dedicated teams or Slack channels to ensure seamless two-way communication between project managers, testers, and your team throughout the entire project.
We provide easy-to-understand reports with detailed findings and actionable recommendations.
We have specialised teams for Cloud, Application, and API testing. Our app and API testers, who are former developers, communicate fluently with your development team, leveraging their coding expertise to deliver deeper, more effective testing.
Clients consistently tell us that we deliver higher-quality testing in less time.
Our pen testing team goes beyond identifying vulnerabilities, offering proactive solutions to mitigate future risks and ensure your security evolves ahead of emerging threats.
Our team of experts have extensive experience in penetration testing a range of systems and applications.
These can be built into your testing plan at the scoping stage.
An advanced type of goal-oriented Pen Testing that simulates a real-world attack to access sensitive data or systems.
A proactive approach to securing the systems that control your critical infrastructure and industrial processes.
Penetration Testing to identify and exploit vulnerabilities within your internal network. Executed by our CREST accredited penetration testers.
Replicating a real-life attack to identify issues with network services, hosts, devices, web, mail, and FTP servers. Executed by our penetration testers.
CHECK approved IT Health Check (ITHC) is a Penetration Test audited by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
Testing any application type, language, or environment, following the OWASP methodology for vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
Often the easiest way to breach a company or network is not by hacking a website, it is by tricking employees to gain access to systems or a building.
Performed by our expert consultants, Build Reviews assess the configuration of the operating system, device configuration and its settings against industry benchmarks.
Using a third party to assess your systems allows them to ‘think like an attacker’ and bring a fresh perspective to your cyber security. Pen Testing can pinpoint weak points in your defences and highlight areas that can be improved using your existing security technology.
Incorporating regular Penetration Tests into your planning helps you to stay on top of your security posture, preserve your brand, and maintain regulatory compliance to standards and regulations including GDPR, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001.
The way we structure our Pen Tests aligns closely with the steps taken by bad actors to target and compromise your systems. We replicate the approach of real-world adversaries to simulate and evaluate how your systems and processes respond to a cyber attack.
One of our CREST, CHECK, and Cyber Scheme certified consultants will work with you to define the scope of the engagement and ensure that our tests will fulfil your requirements.
Your assigned consultant will gather information on your organisation, including:
This information will assist in identifying and exploiting any vulnerabilities or weaknesses.
Within the Threat Analysis stage we will identify a range of potential vulnerabilities within your target systems, which will typically involve a specialist engineer examining:
We will leverage automated tools and manual testing techniques at this stage.
Once we have identified vulnerabilities, we will attempt to exploit them in order to gain entry to the targeted system.
There are three phases to this stage:
Exploit – use vulnerabilities to gain access to a system, e.g. inject commands into an application that provide control over the target.
Escalate – attempt to use the exploited control over the target to increase access or escalate privileges to obtain further rights to the system, such as admin privileges.
Advance – attempt to move from the target system across the infrastructure to find other vulnerable systems (lateral movement) potentially using escalated privileges from target systems and attempting to gain further escalated privileges and access to the network.
Your Penetration Test Report will detail any identified threats or vulnerabilities, as well as our recommended remedial actions. Threats and vulnerabilities will be ranked in order of importance.
The report will also contain an executive summary and attack narrative which will explain the technical risks in business terms. Where required, we can arrange for your CyberLab engineer to present the report to the key stakeholders within your organisation.
The report will provide information on remedial actions required to reduce the threats and vulnerabilities that have been identified.
At this stage, we can provide you with the additional consultancy, products, and services to further improve your security posture.
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ISO 27001 is a globally recognised framework for managing information security risks. While penetration testing is not explicitly required, it plays a crucial role in meeting the standard’s risk assessment requirements by identifying weaknesses in systems and strengthening security controls.
SOC 2 is a security and privacy framework for companies handling customer data, ensuring they meet trust principles like security and confidentiality. While penetration testing is not mandatory, it provides valuable evidence of strong security practices, helping businesses demonstrate compliance with SOC 2 standards.
PCI DSS is a mandatory security standard for businesses handling cardholder data, designed to protect against fraud and breaches. Penetration testing is a requirement under PCI DSS, helping organisations identify vulnerabilities in cardholder data environments and ensure security controls are effective.
DORA is an EU regulation focused on strengthening cyber resilience in financial institutions. It mandates security testing, including penetration testing, to assess and enhance an organisation’s ability to withstand cyber threats, ensuring financial systems remain secure and operational.
HIPAA is a US law protecting sensitive patient health information (PHI). While it does not explicitly require penetration testing, regular security testing helps healthcare organisations identify and fix vulnerabilities, reducing the risk of breaches and ensuring compliance with HIPAA’s security rules.
The FTC enforces consumer protection laws, requiring businesses to implement reasonable security measures to protect customer data. Penetration testing helps companies identify risks, strengthen defences, and demonstrate due diligence in safeguarding sensitive information.
Vulnerability Assessments are used to identify system and software vulnerabilities and provide a high-level overview of overall security posture. They are an effective way for companies who do not have visibility of their security posture to gain a more complete understanding. For organisations with legacy infrastructure, it is a quick and cost-effective way to identify and focus on software and systems that can be fixed easily.
A Penetration Test not only identifies security issues within the company’s infrastructure, systems, and operations, but also exploits these vulnerabilities and, if necessarily, combines them to achieve a specific objective. For example, if the tester’s objective is to gain internal network access, they would find a vulnerability that allows them to upload files, then another one that lets them find those files, and another one that marries these up to execute something malicious.
It’s not the testing process that matters the most – it’s implementing the remediation actions from the reports to proactively improve your security posture.
Our team of experts can help you demystify a Pen Test report and incorporate the fixes.
Proactively identify and fix security vulnerabilities before cyber criminals exploit them. Penetration testing helps you stay one step ahead, protecting your business from costly breaches.
A single weak link can bring down an entire system. Pen testing exposes gaps in your defences, giving you actionable insights to fortify your infrastructure and reduce risk.
Meet regulatory standards like GDPR, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 with regular security testing. Stay compliant, avoid costly fines, and demonstrate your commitment to data protection.
A security breach can destroy customer trust in seconds. Pen testing helps safeguard your data, keeping your brand untarnished and your customers confident in your security.
CREST (the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers) is an international accreditation with a strict Codes of Conduct and Ethics. CHECK is the Government-backed accreditation from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) which certifies that a company can conduct authorised penetration tests of public sector systems and networks.
All our penetration testers are certified by CREST, with senior consultants certified by CREST to the highest CCT Level. Our testers are also either CHECK Team Leaders (CTL’s) or Team Members (CTM’s).
Security testers that pass the Cyber Scheme exams demonstrate ‘competence and skill at the highest levels’ as defined by the National Technical Authority for Cyber Security (NCSC).
Our team have decades of combined experience and take pride in operating at the highest level of the industry – conducting a broad range of government and commercial tests – and always aim to go the extra mile.
Whether you’re looking to implement basic cyber security best practice, improve your existing defences, or introduce a new system or solution, our team of expert consultants, engineers, and ethical hackers are here to help.
Our team specialise in creating bespoke security solutions and testing packages to improve and maintain your security posture.
We are 100% vendor agnostic and will only ever recommend the best products and solutions for your requirements.
