Penetration testing & adversarial assurance
Penetration testing.
Go beyond the vulnerability.
Web, infrastructure, cloud and AI penetration testing — combining automated coverage with senior human testing to find vulnerabilities, prove credible attack paths and show what an attacker could actually reach.
Offensive security
The testing you already need.
Taken further.
Need a conventional penetration test? We do that. Where weaknesses connect into something more significant, we don't stop at the individual finding.
Web Application
Penetration Testing
Manual authenticated testing, APIs, access control and business logic — not scanner output dressed up as a report.
Scope it → 02Infrastructure
Penetration Testing
External and internal networks, Active Directory, segmentation, privilege escalation and the infrastructure behind the asset register.
Scope it → 03Cloud Security
Testing
AWS, Azure and GCP exposure, identity, configuration, trust relationships and routes to higher privilege.
Scope it → 04API Security
Testing
Authentication, authorisation, object access, integrations and the business logic sitting behind your API surface.
Scope it → 05AI System
Security Testing
Agents, RAG, MCP, tool permissions, prompt injection, identity and whether trust boundaries actually hold.
Explore AI testing → 06Red Teaming &
Adversarial Testing
Objective-led testing against people, process and technology to determine whether prevention, detection and response work together.
Scope it →Beyond the pentest
Testing shouldn't end
with the pentest.
A penetration test is a point in time. Your environment, threats and attacker capabilities don't stand still.
SMARTSEC can extend traditional testing into ongoing adversarial assurance — identifying the paths that matter, validating whether your controls stop them, and re-testing them when your environment or the threat changes.
What continuous validation means
- Focuses on attack paths that matter to your organisation
- Combines threat intelligence, automated validation and human-led testing
- Determines whether controls actually stop credible attacker behaviour
- Provides independent evidence for board, risk and compliance stakeholders
- Supports threat-led and regulated assurance programmes
Already testing continuously? Good.
Works with your existing security stack.
SMARTSEC doesn't require you to replace the tools or testing capability you already have. We can work with evidence from your internal security team, existing validation platforms and security tooling alongside independent testing performed by us.
The objective isn't to generate more findings. It's to determine whether credible adversaries can achieve outcomes that matter — and independently demonstrate where your controls stop them.
Independent assurance
When the evidence matters.
Threat-led testing and independent assurance for organisations operating in regulated or high-consequence environments.
Attack-path analysis
Real attack paths.
Real impact.
Individual vulnerabilities still matter. But the bigger question is what they allow an attacker to do next. Where findings, identities and trust relationships connect, we show the path, the controls encountered and the potential consequence.
Example attack path
application→Workload
identity→Secrets
access→CI/CD
infrastructure→Production
environment
Method
Automated where it helps.
Human where it matters.
Automation expands coverage. Senior testers provide the judgement: business logic, unusual attack chains, trust relationships, exploitation decisions and the evidence required to support an assurance conclusion.
Scope & authorise
Define assets, objectives, rules of engagement, critical systems and the outcomes that matter.
Discover & test
Automated coverage and senior human testing across the authorised attack surface.
Connect the evidence
Determine whether individual observations combine into credible attack paths.
Validate the outcome
Test meaningful paths, record controls encountered and establish what an attacker could actually achieve.
Report & remediate
Technical findings for engineers, attack-path evidence for security teams and consequence-focused assurance for decision makers.
Revalidate
After remediation, prove that the path is closed rather than assuming the individual finding fixed the problem.
Contact
Need a pentest?
Start there.
Or tell us the outcome you're worried about and we'll help determine how to test it.