Vulnerability Assessment
Identify and validate weaknesses across an agreed environment, then review exposure, exploitability and operational significance.
Security Assessments
See the exposure. Know what to fix first.
An assessment should do more than produce a vulnerability list. We combine technical validation with business context so material exposure can be separated from routine improvement work.
Assessment portfolio
Choose the method that answers the right question.
Automated coverage can support discovery, but significant findings are manually reviewed and placed in context before reporting.
Penetration Testing
Test whether agreed attack paths can achieve defined objectives within controlled rules of engagement and safety constraints.
External Attack-Surface Review
Examine publicly reachable services, exposed management interfaces, domains, certificates and observable entry points.
Internal Network Assessment
Review segmentation, trust relationships, administrative access, common service exposure and movement between zones.
Microsoft 365 Security Review
Assess identity protection, roles, conditional access, legacy authentication, app consent, audit coverage and sharing.
Active Directory Assessment
Review privilege, tiering, service accounts, delegation, domain controllers, legacy protocols, trusts and recoverability.
Firewall & Architecture Review
Evaluate trust boundaries, rule intent, management access, remote connectivity, inter-site exposure and logging.
Ransomware-Readiness Assessment
Review identity, endpoint coverage, segmentation, privileged access, response preparation, backups and recovery dependencies.
Backup & Recovery Validation
Examine backup architecture, administrative separation, monitoring, restoration procedures and selected recovery tests.
Remediation Roadmap
Organize findings by practical risk, dependency, effort, ownership and the evidence required to verify correction.
Assessment method
Controlled testing, manual validation and usable reporting.
Scope and authorization
Define assets, windows, contacts, exclusions and rules of engagement.
Discovery and testing
Map relevant systems and combine automated coverage with manual analysis.
Risk evaluation
Consider exploitability, exposure, business role, controls and operational impact.
Reporting and workshop
Document reproducible findings and review priorities with technical owners.
Retest where agreed
Confirm whether selected corrective actions resolved the original condition.
What clients receive
Decision material and implementation detail.
Findings are structured for both leadership and the teams responsible for remediation.
- Executive assessment of material exposure
- Defined scope, assumptions and exclusions
- Validated technical findings
- Affected assets and supporting evidence
- Clear severity rationale
- Reproduction and verification guidance
- Prioritized remediation roadmap
- Technical readout and retest statement when included
Assessment FAQ
What to expect before testing.
What is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test?
A vulnerability assessment emphasizes coverage and validated weaknesses. A penetration test pursues agreed objectives to determine whether selected weaknesses can be combined or exploited in practice.
Can testing be performed safely in production?
Many tests can be conducted with controlled methods, defined windows and active coordination. No production test is entirely without risk, so sensitive techniques and stop conditions are agreed first.
Are automated scanner results included as findings?
Scanner output is treated as input, not a final conclusion. Significant findings are manually reviewed and contextualized before reporting.
Is remediation support included?
The report includes remediation guidance and a technical readout. Implementation support and formal retesting can be included in the agreed scope.
Are credentials required?
Some assessments are external and unauthenticated; others require controlled test accounts. Access requirements are agreed during scoping and exchanged through an approved secure method.
Testing boundaries
Authorization is part of the method.
Testing is limited to systems and techniques expressly authorized in writing. Denial-of-service testing, destructive techniques, social engineering, physical testing and third-party systems are excluded unless separately scoped.
Next step
Start with the question the assessment must answer.
We will help define the appropriate scope, testing method and deliverables before work begins.