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Services

Offensive security, delivered as an engagement you can act on.

Each service below can stand alone or be combined into a programme. Scope is agreed up front, and every deliverable is written for the people who have to do the work.

Penetration Testing

Assess how your systems hold up against a determined attacker.

Application, network, cloud, and IoT testing scoped to what actually matters to your business, with findings your engineers can act on.

We test the way real attackers operate: following the data, chaining the small weaknesses that individually look harmless, and pushing until an objective is met. Scope is agreed up front so effort lands on the systems that carry actual business risk instead of whatever is easiest to reach.

Methodology follows recognised industry frameworks - OWASP testing guides, PTES, and OSSTMM - but the output is written for your engineers rather than for a compliance checkbox. Every finding includes a clear reproduction path, a severity rationale tied to your context, and a concrete recommendation.

What you receive

A detailed technical report, an executive summary suitable for leadership, and a debrief session with the team that has to fix the issues. Re-testing after remediation is included so you can close the loop with evidence.

Typical deliverables

  • Web, mobile, and API application testing
  • Internal and external network testing
  • Cloud configuration and container review
  • Reproducible findings with proof-of-concept evidence
  • Remediation guidance and re-test

Red Team Operations

Test detection and response, not just prevention.

Objective-based, full-kill-chain operations that measure whether your people, process, and technology actually detect and contain an intrusion.

A penetration test answers “can they get in”. A red team operation answers the harder question: “if they get in, would we notice, and could we stop them”. We plan against agreed objectives - a specific system, a dataset, a business process - and then operate realistically against your detection stack.

Operations are run with a documented rules-of-engagement, defined safety boundaries, and a deconfliction channel so your defenders are never left guessing whether activity is ours. Where social engineering or physical entry is in scope, it is agreed explicitly and rehearsed to avoid disruption to operations.

What you receive

A campaign narrative that reconstructs the operation end to end, a timeline of what your defences saw versus what they missed, and prioritised improvements across detection, response, and control coverage.

Typical deliverables

  • Objective-based engagement planning
  • Full-kill-chain execution with command and control
  • Social engineering and physical vectors where in scope
  • Detection and response measurement
  • Executive and technical readouts

Threat Emulation

Run the adversary's playbook against your environment.

Emulate the specific threat groups that target your sector, using their real tooling and techniques mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.

Generic testing tells you about generic weaknesses. Threat emulation starts from who actually targets organisations like yours - their initial access preferences, their persistence mechanisms, their lateral movement - and reproduces that behaviour in your environment.

We profile the relevant threat groups, agree a technique set with your team, and execute it while recording which steps generated telemetry. The result is not just a list of what worked, but a map of which parts of the adversary lifecycle your current controls can see.

What you receive

Per-technique results with detection status, an ATT&CK coverage view, and a prioritised backlog of detection engineering work ordered by the techniques most likely to be used against you.

Typical deliverables

  • Threat landscape and actor profiling
  • Technique selection mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
  • Emulation of real tooling and tradecraft
  • Detection gap analysis per technique
  • Coverage reporting against the chosen actor profile

Security Assessment & Architecture Review

Find structural weaknesses before they are exploited.

A design-level review of how your systems, cloud, and delivery pipeline fit together, aimed at problems testing alone will not surface.

Some of the most expensive weaknesses are not bugs - they are structural decisions: an over-permissioned service account, a trust boundary in the wrong place, a deployment pipeline that can push straight to production unreviewed. These are the issues a point-in-time test tends to miss.

We review architecture against how your business actually operates, model the threats that matter, and identify where control gaps would have the largest blast radius. Recommendations are ranked by risk and mapped to effort so you can sequence the work realistically.

What you receive

A threat model per critical system, a risk-ranked findings register, and a roadmap you can hand to engineering and leadership with confidence.

Typical deliverables

  • Threat modelling of critical systems
  • Cloud and infrastructure posture review
  • Secure SDLC and CI/CD pipeline assessment
  • Identity and access architecture review
  • Risk-ranked roadmap with effort estimates

Purple Team & Detection Engineering

Turn every finding into a detection.

Joint exercises where offensive and defensive teams work the same problem, so each attack technique ends with a tuned detection instead of a report that gets filed away.

A finding that is never turned into a detection will be found again by the next attacker. Purple team work closes that loop: we execute a technique, watch what your stack logged, and then improve the detection together with your analysts until it holds.

Exercises are run iteratively. Each round targets a technique set, measures what was detected, tunes rules or playbooks, and re-runs to confirm the improvement is real rather than assumed. Your analysts are in the room throughout, so the knowledge stays with your team.

What you receive

New and tuned detection rules with test cases, updated playbooks, and a before-and-after coverage measurement for each technique exercised.

Typical deliverables

  • Joint offensive and defensive exercises
  • Detection rule authoring and tuning
  • SIEM and EDR use-case development
  • Alert triage and response workflow review
  • Measured coverage improvement between rounds

Training & Certification

Build the operator capability inside your team.

Hands-on, lab-driven training in offensive security, from fundamentals through advanced red team tradecraft, delivered to your team or as open cohorts.

Skills are the control that survives a tooling change. Our training is built around doing the work: isolated lab environments, real tooling, and instructors who operate in the field. Participants leave with practical capability, not just vocabulary.

Curricula run from foundations for engineers moving into security, through to advanced red team operations including command and control, evasion, and phishing operations. Defensive tracks cover detection engineering and incident response so both sides of the house speak the same language.

What you receive

A tailored curriculum, provisioned lab environments, and an assessment of each participant against defined competencies, with certification for those who meet the bar.

Typical deliverables

  • Hands-on lab environments, not slideware
  • Offensive security fundamentals through advanced tradecraft
  • Phishing and social engineering operations workshops
  • Defensive counterparts for blue teams
  • Assessment and certification of participants

Not sure which engagement fits?

Describe the system and the concern. We will recommend the smallest engagement that gives you a real answer.