Independent Cybersecurity ConsultancyOffensive Security
Controlled testing that shows where an attacker could gain access and what they could reach. For teams launching, changing, or exposing new applications, APIs, or infrastructure.
You receive prioritised findings, attack paths, technical evidence, and remediation guidance.
Why it matters
A request that the application accepts from the wrong user is worth more to an attacker than a rare memory-corruption bug. An authenticated account changing an identifier in an API request and receiving another customer's data is a complete break in the trust boundary between accounts — and it looks like ordinary traffic in the logs.
Weaknesses like this are rarely visible from the outside, and a scanner that confirms an endpoint responds cannot tell you whether it should have. Testing establishes whether a path is genuinely reachable, what it exposes, and what it would mean commercially — which is what turns a list of issues into a decision about what to fix first.
What we test
The areas below are representative of how each surface is approached. The exact systems, environments, and depth are agreed during scoping rather than assumed.
Authenticated and unauthenticated testing of application behaviour, focused on the trust boundaries an attacker can actually cross.
Testing how endpoints enforce identity and ownership, including whether a valid session can reach another account’s data.
Testing exposed services and the routes between them, from initial access to what an attacker could reach afterwards.
Testing how identity, permissions, and configuration combine in a cloud environment to create reachable paths to sensitive resources.
How an engagement works
Testing runs against an agreed attack surface. Findings are documented with evidence, remediation guidance is prioritised for the engineers who will act on it, and retesting is carried out where the engagement includes it.
We understand your environment, objectives, scope, and risk concerns.
We test the agreed attack surface using a structured methodology.
We validate findings and determine practical exploitability and impact.
You receive technical findings and an executive-level summary.
We provide prioritised, implementable remediation guidance.
Where included, we validate that identified issues have been addressed.
Deliverables
PENETRATION TESTING
Retesting verifies whether previously identified findings have been remediated. It is performed when included in the agreed engagement scope, and does not constitute a completely new penetration test. Testing beyond that scope is handled as a separate engagement.
Evidence
A few examples of how we work, from documenting a finding, to tracing the attack path, to putting it into a clear report. No client work is shown.
Affected endpoint: /api/accounts/{id}/
Attack scenario: An authenticated user changes the numeric account identifier in an API request and retrieves another user's account data without authorisation.
Business impact: Any authenticated user could enumerate and access other customers' account data — a reportable data exposure.
Remediation: Enforce server-side object-level authorization for every requested resource.
Weaknesses become meaningful when they combine. We report the sequence, not just the individual issue.
Leadership gets a prioritised view of risk; engineering gets the path to the fix.
/api/accounts/{id}/Engagement boundaries
Knowing what is out of scope matters as much as knowing what is in it. These are the defaults; anything different is agreed explicitly before work starts.
Testing runs only against systems you have explicitly authorised, within a scope and rules of engagement agreed in writing beforehand.
Physical security testing, social engineering, phishing, denial-of-service testing, and destructive testing are outside the default scope.
Systems you do not own or control are out of scope unless the owner has authorised the work.
Production environments can be tested where you explicitly authorise it and we agree safeguards and rules of engagement in advance.
Testing can be informed by source code where that is specifically agreed as part of the engagement.
The exact systems, environments, and testing depth are set during scoping — this page describes the shape of the work, not a fixed checklist.
Start with scope
Describe the application, API, infrastructure, or cloud environment you want assessed. We'll review the context and come back with a proposed scope and rules of engagement before any testing starts.