Penetration Testing Services to Identify
Real Attack Paths
See your business through an attacker's eyes. Identify exploitable vulnerabilities, attack paths, and business risks with independent penetration testing tailored to Swiss and EU regulatory expectations.
Our penetration testing services simulate realistic attack scenarios across your applications, infrastructure, and networks. We demonstrate how weaknesses can be chained together to compromise critical systems, then deliver a full report tailored to both technical and executive audiences, with prioritised recommendations aligned to business impact.
Security validation
Why Realistic Attack Simulation Matters for Business Security
Cyber threats are no longer a question of if but when. Penetration testing, also known as ethical hacking, simulates real-world attacks in a controlled and authorised way to identify exploitable weaknesses before attackers do.
Unlike automated vulnerability scans, penetration testing is performed by certified experts who think and act like attackers. They chain vulnerabilities, bypass security controls, and attempt to reach your most sensitive assets, revealing the true business impact of your exposure.
Penetration testing is more than a technical exercise: it is a business risk management tool that supports audit readiness, investment decisions, and regulatory compliance.
Penetration Testing Challenges and Cyber Risk Exposures
Many organisations invest in security controls but still lack visibility into whether those controls actually prevent real-world attacks. Without independent validation, common gaps emerge:
- Unclear prioritisation of security investments, with budget spread across low-impact issues
- Hidden attack paths across interconnected systems, applications, and identities
- Increasing regulatory pressure, including the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP), ISO 27001, and FINMA expectations
- Late discovery of critical weaknesses during audits, customer assessments, or active incidents
- Limited understanding of business impact, such as data exposure, operational disruption, or reputational damage
Acting before your next audit or security incident allows you to stay in control of your security posture, rather than reacting under pressure with limited time and options.
Attack Simulation
Choosing the Right Testing Approach for Your Environment
Penetration testing can be performed with different levels of prior knowledge and access. The right approach depends on your objectives, risk profile, and the scope of what you want to validate.
Black Box Minimal Knowledge
No internal information is provided. This simulates an external attacker with no prior knowledge and focuses on publicly exposed systems. It is efficient and realistic for perimeter testing but offers limited visibility into internal weaknesses.
Gray Box Partial Knowledge
Partial knowledge is shared, such as user credentials, network diagrams, or architecture insights. This simulates a compromised account or insider scenario and offers the best balance between realism and depth. It is often the most effective approach for identifying high-impact risks within a defined timeframe.
White Box Complete Knowledge
Full access to source code, configurations, and documentation is provided. This enables maximum coverage and is ideal for deep security assessments, critical applications, or integration into a secure development process.
Scope of Services
Security Testing Across Infrastructure, Applications, and Attack Surfaces
We deliver targeted penetration testing services tailored to your environment, industry, and business context.
Infrastructure Security
Validate that your network, endpoints, and wireless perimeter resist real attacks.
Internal Network Penetration Testing
Simulation of insider threats and assumed-breach scenarios, including privilege escalation, lateral movement, and attack paths leading to your critical assets.
External Network Penetration Testing
Analysis of internet-facing systems and exposed services to identify entry points and real-world attack vectors before adversaries do.
Wireless Penetration Testing
Assessment of Wi-Fi security, authentication protocols, rogue access point detection, and risks of unauthorised access to internal networks.
Application Security
Validate that your customer-facing and integration layers resist real attacks.
Web Application Penetration Testing
In-depth assessment of application workflows, authentication, business logic flaws, and OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, with a focus on what attackers can actually exploit.
API Penetration Testing
Evaluation of REST, GraphQL, and SOAP endpoints, including authentication mechanisms, authorisation flaws, data exposure risks, and abuse scenarios aligned with the OWASP API Security Top 10.
Advanced and Optional Testing Scenarios
Social engineering simulations and targeted attacker scenarios can be included depending on your threat model and risk exposure.
Methodology
How We Run a Penetration Test
Our methodology follows the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework, ensuring consistent, transparent, and audit-ready engagements from scoping to remediation.
Pre-engagement
Definition of scope, objectives, rules of engagement, legal authorisation, and testing windows, ensuring full alignment with your business and operational constraints.
Intelligence Gathering
Attack surface mapping through OSINT, asset discovery, and reconnaissance to identify realistic entry points before testing begins.
Threat Modelling
Identification of realistic attack scenarios based on your business-critical assets, threat landscape, and adversary profiles relevant to your industry.
Vulnerability Analysis
Combination of manual testing and targeted automated techniques to identify exploitable weaknesses, with results validated to eliminate false positives.
Exploitation
Controlled exploitation and chaining of vulnerabilities to demonstrate real impact, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques for clear adversary alignment.
Post-Exploitation
Simulation of realistic attacker behaviour, including privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, and access to sensitive data, to assess the true depth of compromise.
Reporting
Delivery of a comprehensive report with executive and technical sections, validated evidence, business impact analysis, and a prioritised remediation roadmap.
Deliverables
Penetration Testing Report and Remediation Support
Every engagement delivers a single comprehensive report designed for two audiences: an executive section for leadership and audit stakeholders, and a technical section for your security and engineering teams. Each engagement also includes a dedicated report presentation, with optional retesting available to validate fixes.
Executive Section
Designed for C-level, risk, and audit stakeholders, providing a clear view of business risk and remediation priorities.
- Overall security posture and risk assessment
- Business impact and potential consequences for your operations, data, and reputation
- Prioritised remediation plan aligned with business risk
- Key insights ready to support board, audit, and regulatory discussions
Technical Section
Designed for your security, engineering, and IT teams, providing the depth needed to understand and remediate each issue.
- Complete list of findings with severity ratings and CVSS v3.1 scoring
- Mapped attack paths showing how findings chain to compromise critical assets
- Step-by-step reproduction evidence, including affected assets, requests, and proof of exploitation
- Concrete, actionable remediation recommendations with references to relevant standards (OWASP, CWE, vendor guidance)
Report Presentation
Included with every engagement. A dedicated session with our consultants ensures all stakeholders, technical and executive, understand the findings, the underlying risks, and the recommended remediation priorities. Questions are addressed directly and remediation discussions can begin immediately.
Optional Retest and Validation
Available as an add-on. Once your teams have implemented fixes, our consultants verify that vulnerabilities have been effectively remediated, no regressions have been introduced, and the original attack paths can no longer be exploited. The retest concludes with an updated report reflecting your improved security posture.
Business Impact
Our Security Testing Is Aligned with Operational Exposure
Attack paths, not just vulnerabilities
We focus on how weaknesses combine across systems to enable real compromise, because attackers exploit chains, not isolated findings. You see exactly how an issue in one component can lead to the loss of your most critical assets.
Realistic attacker objectives
Each engagement is driven by adversarial goals, such as domain takeover, data exfiltration, ransomware staging, or business service disruption. This produces findings that map directly to outcomes your leadership and auditors care about.
Focus on business-critical assets
Before testing begins, we identify your crown jewels with you, whether that means customer data, financial systems, intellectual property, or operational technology. Every test is then prioritised around protecting what matters most.
Clear, decision-ready reporting
You receive a single comprehensive report with two audience-specific sections: an executive summary for leadership and a detailed technical analysis for your security and engineering teams. Each finding includes validated evidence, business impact, and a prioritised remediation path.
Methodology-driven and standards-aligned
Our engagements follow the seven phases of PTES and align with the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, ensuring repeatable quality and full coverage rather than ad-hoc testing.
Independent and certified expertise
Our team holds recognised offensive security certifications and operates independently of vendor or product sales, so our recommendations are guided by your risk, not by what we sell.
Value & Trust
Trusted Penetration Testing Expertise for Critical Environments
Our team consists of senior penetration testers with strong backgrounds in software development, infrastructure security, and offensive operations. We combine structured methodologies with a practical attacker mindset to uncover what automated tools and checklists miss.
Experienced Penetration Testers You Can Trust
- Recognised offensive security certifications from Hack The Box and APIsec University, including CPTS, CWES, CWPE, CASA, and ACP, covering all our service domains: Network and infrastructure, Web applications, Wireless, and API.
- Continuous training and research aligned with evolving attack techniques, tooling, and adversary tradecraft
- Experience across regulated industries, including finance, healthcare, and critical service providers operating under Swiss and EU regulatory frameworks
- Hands-on engineering background that ensures findings are not only valid but accompanied by realistic, implementable remediation guidance
- Independent and vendor-neutral, so our recommendations are guided by your risk, not by product sales
We focus on measurable risk reduction and audit readiness
- Alignment with industry frameworks and Swiss regulatory expectations
- Clear mapping of technical findings to business impact
- Dual audience reporting for executives and technical teams
- Actionable remediation guidance prioritised by real risk
- Support during audits and compliance processes
"The security assessment provided us with concrete, actionable recommendations as well as a transparent evaluation of business risks. We were particularly impressed by the depth of expertise, the realistic attack scenarios, and the clear, comprehensible presentation of the results."
Real-world engagement: Grey-box penetration test and comprehensive security assessment
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Gain clarity on your vulnerabilities, attack paths, and business exposure, before attackers or auditors do.
Request a tailored quote or schedule a no-obligation scoping discussion with our certified penetration testers. We will help you define the right scope, approach, and timing based on your environment, objectives, and regulatory context.