External Network Testing
Evaluate agreed internet-facing systems for exposed services, configuration weaknesses, authentication issues, and exploitable vulnerabilities.
Security Services
Find Exploitable Weaknesses. Validate Your Defenses
Symosis tests applications, infrastructure, identities, and cloud environments to identify exploitable weaknesses and assess security-control performance.
Our practitioners combine appropriate tooling with manual investigation, evidence-based reporting, and practical remediation guidance.
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Understand the Attack Paths That Matter
A finding becomes more useful when your team understands the access required, the conditions needed for exploitation, and the resulting impact.
Symosis evaluates agreed scenarios within defined boundaries and connects observed weaknesses to the systems, information, and operations at risk.
When Clients Engage Us
- 01Before deploying or materially changing an application
- 02To assess external or internal infrastructure
- 03After cloud or identity architecture changes
- 04To support customer assurance requirements
- 05To investigate weaknesses identified by previous assessments
- 06To evaluate detection and response against selected attack techniques
- 07To validate remediation
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Penetration Testing Services
Internal Network & Identity Testing
Assess selected paths through infrastructure and identity systems, including privilege escalation, access-control weaknesses, and lateral movement.
Web Application & API Testing
Test authentication, authorization, session management, business logic, input handling, tenant isolation, and sensitive-data access.
Cloud Testing
Evaluate agreed attack paths involving cloud identities, permissions, exposed services, storage, and workload access.
AI Application Testing
Assess prompt injection, unauthorized retrieval, agent permissions, and connected-tool abuse through a dedicated AI testing scope.
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Red Teaming, Purple Teaming & Control Validation
Red Team Exercises
Evaluate agreed adversary objectives across a scoped attack path. Assess the relevant prevention, detection, and response controls encountered during the exercise.
Purple Team Engagements
Bring offensive and defensive practitioners together to test selected techniques, examine telemetry, tune detections, and improve investigation workflows.
Targeted Control Validation
Test whether a specific safeguard performs as intended—for example, a privilege restriction, segmentation boundary, detection rule, or remediation.
04
Choose the Right Engagement
Penetration testing focuses on finding and validating exploitable weaknesses in defined targets.
Red teaming evaluates agreed adversary objectives across a broader scenario.
Purple teaming collaboratively tests and improves defensive capabilities.
We help select the approach based on your objective, environment, and operational readiness.
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How We Deliver
- 01 →
Scope & Rules of Engagement
Agree on targets, objectives, accounts, permitted techniques, operating windows, data handling, and escalation contacts.
- 02 →
Discover & Plan
Map relevant services, interfaces, workflows, access boundaries, and test scenarios.
- 03 →
Test & Validate
Investigate weaknesses and demonstrate permitted impact within the agreed boundaries.
- 04 →
Report & Review
Deliver findings, attack narratives, control observations, and remediation priorities.
- 05
Retest & Improve
Where included, validate fixes or repeat selected scenarios after defensive improvements.
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Findings Your Teams Can Act On
Validated findings include:
- Affected systems and components
- Preconditions and access required
- Reproduction steps and supporting evidence
- Observed impact and severity rationale
- Practical remediation guidance
- Validation or retest criteria
Reports distinguish demonstrated outcomes from potential consequences that were not exercised.
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What You Receive
Depending on the engagement:
- Executive summary
- Testing scope and coverage overview
- Technical findings and reproduction evidence
- Attack-path or exercise narrative
- Prevention, detection, and response observations
- Prioritized remediation recommendations
- Technical findings workshop
- Retest or follow-up validation results
- Documented limitations and untested areas
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Turn Results Into Improvements
Symosis can provide scoped engineering support for application, identity, configuration, architecture, and detection changes.
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Questions
What is the difference between a pen test and a red team?
Penetration testing focuses on finding and validating exploitable weaknesses in defined targets. Red teaming evaluates agreed adversary objectives across a broader scenario.
How is a pen test different from a vulnerability scan?
Scans identify known issues automatically; a penetration test uses human expertise to chain and exploit weaknesses and assess real impact.
Will testing disrupt operations?
Rules of engagement define timing, scope and safety constraints to avoid disruption.
Do you test AI applications?
Yes, through a dedicated AI testing scope in AI Application Security & Red Teaming.
How is pricing scoped?
By assets, complexity and testing approach, agreed during scoping.
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Tell Us What You Need to Validate
Share your targets, objectives, environment, and desired timing. We will define the appropriate testing approach, access requirements, and deliverables.