Service Overview

Our Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) service is an integrated and comprehensive solution for identifying, analysing and mitigating cybersecurity vulnerabilities in corporate technology assets. Unlike superficial approaches aimed at mere formal compliance, our service stands out for its methodological completeness and technical accuracy in identifying real cyber risk exposures. We do not limit ourselves to generating standardized reports to meet "pro forma" regulatory requirements, but we commit ourselves to identifying and exploiting every vulnerability present, simulating real attacks conducted by motivated and competent threat actors.

Reference Methodologies and Frameworks

Our methodological approach is based on the synergistic integration of internationally recognised frameworks. Adopting Guidelines OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) for the evaluation of application safety, with particular reference to the OWASP Testing Guide, the OWASP Top 10, the OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide (MSTG) and the OWASP API Security Project. Using the framework MITRE ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) to shape the behavior of real strikers, mapping tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by advanced APT groups and threat actors, thus ensuring that our tests reflect concrete and current threat scenarios. We also integrate the methodology OSSTMM (Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual), providing a repeatable scientific approach to operational safety measurement, ensuring consistency, reproducibility and comparability of results over time.

Skills and Certifications of the Team

Our security specialists have high-level professional certifications that attest advanced and up-to-date technical skills. Team includes certified professionals CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker), able to think and operate as an evil attacker identifying vulnerabilities through ethical hacking techniques. We have certified experts PWASP (Practical Web Application Security and Penetration Testing), specialised in the identification of complex application vulnerabilities and the exploitation of modern web applications. Our senior staff holds certification CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), ensuring a strategic and architectural vision of computer security as well as operational technical skills. Also, we include certified specialists eCPPT (eLearnSecurity Certified Professional Penetration Tester), with proven capabilities in performing full penetration tests on complex infrastructure, including pivoting techniques, post-exploitation and lateral movement.

Full Coverage

Our VAPT service covers the entire spectrum of business technology assets, ensuring a holistic assessment of security posture. Run web application penetration testing, analyzing vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), business logic vulnerability, insecure deserialization, XML External Entity (XXE), Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and any other weakness contemplated by the OWASP Top 10 and beyond. Lead Security assessment of mobile applications both on Android and iOS platforms, analyzing client-side security, client-server communications, local storage, session management, code blurring and reverse engineering vulnerabilities according to the OWASP MSTG.

Make penetration testing of network infrastructure, including vulnerability scanning, exploitation of exposed services, privilege escalation, lateral movement, analysis of faulty firewall configurations, routers, switches and other network devices, simulating internal and external attack scenarios. Run security testing of REST API, SOAP, GraphQL and microservices, verifying authentication, authorization, rate limiting, input validation, error management and every aspect covered by the OWASP API Security Top 10.

We evaluate the safety of cloud environments on AWS platforms, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, analyzing IAM configurations, security group, bucket S3, Azure Blob Storage, virtual network configurations, public exhibitions, privilege escalation in the cloud and misconfigurations that could compromise confidentiality, integrity and data availability. We conduct assessment on IoT devices (Internet of Things), analyzing firmware, communication protocols, embedded web interfaces, and hardware vulnerabilities. We also carry out security assessments on OT/ICS systems (Operational Technology/Industrial Control Systems), including SCADA, PLC and industrial protocols such as Modbus, DNP3 and OPC, with particular attention to operational continuity and safety.

Detailed execution process

Our penetration testing process follows a structured and methodical approach that ensures full coverage and reproducible results. Let's start with one. Reconnaissance phase and information gathering, where we collect publicly available information on the target organization, identifying exposed assets, technologies used, IP addresses, domains, subdomains, email addresses, employees, technologies in use and potential attack surfaces through OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques.

Let's proceed with automated vulnerability scanning, using professional tools to identify known vulnerabilities, incorrect configurations, outdated services, missing patches and common weaknesses. This phase includes both unauthenticated and authenticated scanning, to maximize the depth of analysis. So let's run Manual vulnerability assessment, where our experts manually verify every automatic finding, eliminating false positives, identifying false negatives and contextualizing any vulnerability in the specific environment of the customer.

The Exploitation phase represents the heart of penetration testing: Here we actively try to exploit the vulnerabilities identified to demonstrate the real risk. We do not merely report theoretical vulnerabilities, but demonstrate the actual impact through working proof-of-concept. Make post-exploitation and privilege escalation, where, after obtaining initial access, we try to elevate privileges, maintain persistence, extract credentials, access sensitive data and move laterally in the network simulating a specific striker.

Lead Business Logic Flaws Analysis, identifying vulnerabilities that do not emerge from automatic scanners but that reside in application logic, such as race conditions, workflow bypasses, price manipulation, bypass access controls and other architectural weaknesses. Run testing of authentication and authorisation mechanisms, checking password policy robustness, session management, implementation of multi-factor authentication, role-based access controls (RBAC) and segregation of duties.

ATT&CK MITRE keymap

Every attack technique used during penetration testing is mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, allowing you to understand which tactics and techniques a real striker could use against the organization. We document techniques of Initial Access as phishing, publicly exposed vulnerability exploits and supply chain compromised. We identify techniques of Execution through command injection, execution scripts and interpreter exploitation. Mapping Techniques of Persistent as account creation, scheduled tasks and configuration changes. Let's document Privilege Escalation through exploitation of local vulnerabilities, credential dumping and abuse of permits. We identify techniques of Defense Evasion as obfuscation, disabling security tools and timestomping. Map Credential Access through credential dumping, brute force and password spraying. Let's document Discovery via network scanning, account discovery and system information discovery. Identify Lateral Movement through remote services, pass-the-hash and deployment of remote services. Map Collection sensitive data, Command and Control via compromised communication channels and Exfiltration of critical information.

Deliverable Complete and Actionable

At the end of the engagement, we provide a complete suite of structured deliverables to meet the needs of different stakeholders.
The Executive Report is intended for management and board, presenting a high level synthesis of identified risks, potential business impact, overall security posture with quantitative metrics, comparisons with industry benchmarks and priority strategic recommendations for budget allocation and remediation roadmaps.
The Detailed Technical Report provide IT and security teams with complete and comprehensive documentation of each identified vulnerability, including accurate technical description, evidence with screenshots and logs, proof-of-concept step-by-step playable, CVE and CVSS score where applicable, OWASP and CWE references, detailed technical and business impact and remediation specific recommendations with examples of secure code where relevant.
The Compromise Report document the complete attack chains we successfully performed, showing how an attacker could combine multiple vulnerabilities to achieve critical targets such as access to sensitive data, privilege escalation up to domain admin, lateral movement to critical systems and potential data exfiltration. This report concretely demonstrates the real risk beyond the mere list of vulnerabilities, helping the organization understand the most dangerous attack scenarios.
The Remediation Plan Provides a priorityed vulnerability resolution roadmap, with critical classification (Critical, High, Medium, Low), implementation effort (Quick wins, medium effort, long-term projects), dependencies and prerequisites, implementation best practices, examples of secure configurations, necessary patches and updates and timelines suggested for complete remediation. We also include recommendations for architectural improvements, implementation of defense-in-depth, improvement of security development lifecycle processes and detection and responsiveness.

Our Differentiator: Breaking the Bit

What radically distinguishes our VAPT service is the substance-oriented rather than form-oriented approach. We do not perform security testing "pro forma" exclusively aimed at producing documentation for auditors or compliance officers. Split the bit: our goal is to identify every single vulnerability exploitable and demonstrate concretely the impact that a real striker could cause. We do not stop at the first access obtained, but we continue simulating an advanced persistent threat that tries to maximize impact, extract maximum value and maintain persistence. We combine deep technical expertise, continuous update on the latest attack techniques, use of professional and custom tools, creative thinking to identify non-standard vulnerabilities and dedication in providing results that really improve the customer's security posture. Our completeness is manifested in the end-to-end coverage of all technological layers, from hardware to application code, from network configurations to organizational policies. Our accuracy is expressed in maniacal attention to detail, manual verification of each finding, elimination of false positives and proactive identification of vulnerabilities that automatic scanners do not detect. We do not sell empty reassurances or certifications, but we provide an honest, brutally accurate and actionable assessment of the organization’s real cyber risk exposure.

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