Penetration testing
Infrastructure pentesting, or penetration testing, attacks your network, your systems and your perimeter to find where an adversary would get in and how far they would get. The difference is in the pace: instead of a once-a-year snapshot, we validate your exposure continuously, because your infrastructure changes every week and an attacker does not wait for your next audit. We find the flaw, we help you close it and we verify that it really stays closed.
Production-safe validation: we attack like a real adversary without slowing down your operation.
Why continuous
The old-school pentest portrays your security on one specific day. The problem is that your infrastructure does not sit still, and neither does an attacker. Continuous validation changes the question from "how was I months ago" to "how am I now".
Every deployment, every new account and every service you open shifts your attack surface. An annual pentest portrays it one day and expires the next.
We do not hand you loose vulnerabilities, but the entire attack path: where the entry happens, how the advance goes and how far it reaches.
When you close a flaw, we test it again right away to confirm the door is really closed and not just on paper.
We attack like a real adversary on your running systems, in a controlled way and without disrupting your operation.
Scope
Everything that is network, systems and perimeter, right where the attack advances through lateral movement, credentials and privilege escalation. From the inside out and from the outside in.
The internal pentest assumes the attacker is already in. We look for lateral movements, privilege escalation and poorly protected internal services.
The external pentest attacks everything facing the Internet. We map your perimeter surface and the exposed services.
The heart of Windows environments. Kerberos, delegations and configurations that open paths to domain control.
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Identities, storage, containers and configurations through which the attack pivots just as it does through the network.
The wifi perimeter. WPA2 and WPA3, rogue access points and segmentation. It is a door into the network, and the wireless part may call for an on-site visit.
On-premise and cloud chained together. The real attack does not respect the borders of your diagram.
How it works
This is ethical hacking: we attack the way a real adversary would, but with your permission and in a controlled way. We do not launch a scanner and hand you its report. We discover and exploit weaknesses by chaining one to another: we compromise a credential, escalate privileges, move from one system to another and keep going until we demonstrate the real impact on your business, such as exposure to ransomware. And we do it safely on your production systems.
When you see the full path, prioritising stops being guesswork. You know which flaw opens the door and which is noise, and you focus the effort where it really lowers the risk. That is what separates a demonstrated attack path from a list of vulnerabilities sorted by colour.
More than a scanner
It is the most common confusion, and the difference changes your risk bill. A vulnerability assessment gives you a list of possible flaws. A pentest demonstrates which ones are actually exploited, chained together, and how far they reach.
It compares versions against a database of known flaws and hands you a list, almost always long, sorted by a theoretical score. It tells you what could fail, but not whether it actually fails in your environment or what consequence it has.
It actually exploits the flaws, chains them with one another and demonstrates with evidence how far an attacker gets. Many of the paths we find do not use a single catalogued flaw: they are weak passwords, misconfigured permissions and trust relationships. That is where a scanner does not reach.
That is why we prioritise by real impact and not by a textbook score: we tell you what opens the door and what is noise, with the evidence in front of you. A scanner is a good starting point; a pentest is the one that tells you whether you hold up.
What it includes
It is not just launching the attack. A complete infrastructure pentest looks at your security through the same cracks a real attacker comes in by.
Weak, reused or leaked passwords, which are the most used way in for real attacks.
No theory and no scores: the evidence that the flaw is exploited in your environment, so you know what to fix first.
We check whether your EDR, your segmentation and your defences really stop the attack, or only seem to.
When a serious vulnerability appears, the kind that gets exploited within hours, we launch a targeted test to find out whether it affects you.
Not a sample: we go over your entire network, not a few hand-picked systems.
We leave decoys on the critical paths that warn you if someone actually walks them, and that connect with your monitoring.
And when we finish we do not leave you a dump of findings to figure out on your own. You walk away with the attack paths prioritised by impact, a report that both management and your technical team understand, and the verification that what you fixed was really closed.
When
An important client, a tender or your cyber insurance policy demands a recent penetration test to trust you.
You are going for ISO 27001 or the ENS, or you already have them and need fresh evidence for maintenance.
NIS2 and DORA push you to test your security regularly, not once and then forget about it.
A cloud migration, a merger, a new office or a large deployment shift your attack surface and open new gaps.
And the honest answer for almost everyone: if you have never had one, you already need it. The question is not whether you have exploitable flaws, but which ones and how far they reach.
Method
We agree on what is in scope (internal, external, cloud, Active Directory, wireless) and the rules of the game, so we attack freely and without risk to your operation.
We discover and exploit your exposure recurrently, chaining flaws together until we demonstrate the business impact.
We hand you the attack paths sorted by real risk and by business impact, with the evidence for each one.
When you fix, we repeat the test right away to confirm the flaw is really closed.
Fits with
A well-run infrastructure pentest pays off beyond technical security. The findings and the proof that your fixes work serve as evidence for your ISO 27001, your ENS, NIS2 or DORA: the same work put to use twice.
What we attack here, with Sondriva, our SOC, we then monitor in real time. And for custom software, application pentesting goes where this one does not reach: one-off and deep, with a human eye on the business logic of each application. The two complement each other.
Questions
In the pace and in the outcome. A traditional pentest is a snapshot at a specific moment that expires the instant your infrastructure changes. We validate your exposure continuously, we hand you the complete attack path and not a list of loose vulnerabilities, and we verify every fix the moment you apply it.
A vulnerability assessment compares versions against a database of known flaws and hands you a list of what could fail. A pentest actually exploits them, chains them together and proves with evidence how far an attacker gets, including the paths that use no catalogued flaw at all, such as weak passwords or misconfigured permissions. The scanner is the starting point; the pentest tells you whether you hold up.
Yes. We attack the way a real adversary would, but in a controlled and safe way for your operation, without disrupting your services. That is why it can be run recurrently on your real environment and not only in an isolated lab.
Everything that is network, systems and perimeter: your internal network, the services exposed to the Internet, Active Directory, your cloud environments, the wireless network and the hybrid scenarios where the attack chains the inside with the outside.
Yes, and it is one of the focal points. We review Kerberos, delegations and configurations that open paths toward domain control, which is what an attacker looks for the moment they set foot in a Windows network.
That too. We attack AWS, Azure and Google Cloud looking at identities and permissions, storage, containers and configurations, because the real attack pivots through the cloud just as it does through the network, and hybrid environments are where the two worlds chain together.
Each one tells a different story. The external pentest measures what an attacker can do from the Internet, with no credentials. The internal pentest assumes they are already in, through an email or a supplier, and measures how far they get from inside. Since real attacks usually start outside and finish inside, covering both is the norm.
Yes, and that is exactly when it teaches the most. Attacking your environment checks whether those defences really stop the attack or only seem to. You do not have a tools problem, but a problem of knowing whether the ones you already have work, and that can only be seen by putting them to the test.
Yes. The findings and the proof that your fixes work count directly as evidence for your ISO 27001, your ENS, NIS2 or DORA. It is the same work put to use twice: you strengthen real security and feed your compliance.
They complement each other. Infrastructure pentesting is continuous and measures your network, systems and perimeter exposure. Application pentesting is one-off and deep, with a human eye on the business logic of each application. Many organisations need both.
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Tell us what you want to put to the test, your network, your cloud, your Active Directory, and we will propose how to validate your exposure continuously.
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