1. Initial Scoping & Attack Surface Mapping (ASMap)

• Diagnostic Discovery: We analyze your actual attack surface – not just count IP addresses like amateurs. Only live services with exploitable interfaces count toward scope.
• Threat Modeling: Identify crown jewels, critical assets, and likely attack vectors based on your industry and infrastructure – because a bank faces different threats than a SaaS startup.
• Custom Pricing: Diagnostic based quote that reflects real work required, not arbitrary per-IP pricing that charges you for dead hosts and closed ports.

2. Reconnaissance & Intelligence Gathering

• Passive Reconnaissance: OSINT collection, subdomain enumeration, leaked credentials, and public exposure analysis without touching your systems – finding what attackers already know about you.
• Active Reconnaissance: Service fingerprinting, technology stack identification, and attack surface validation using manual techniques that automated scanners miss.
• Social Intelligence: LinkedIn harvesting, organizational structure mapping, and identifying high-value targets for potential social engineering vectors.

3. Vulnerability Discovery & Analysis

• Manual Testing: Real vulnerability research using custom scripts, manual code review, and logic flaw identification – not just running Nessus and calling it “manual.”
• Novel Vulnerability Research: Applying Real Time Dynamic Testing™ methodology to discover known and novel vulnerabilities and complex vulnerability chains that compliance scanners never find.
• Business Logic Testing: Understanding how your systems actually work to find authorization bypasses, race conditions, and workflow manipulation opportunities.

4. Exploitation & Post-Exploitation

• Proof of Concept Development: Creating working exploits (if none exist) to demonstrate real impact – not theoretical CVSS scores but actual “here’s how we’d steal your data.”
• Lateral Movement Mapping: Documenting the Path to Compromise showing how initial access escalates to domain admin or data exfiltration.
• Impact Demonstration: Safely proving what attackers could do without actually damaging your production environment or stealing customer data.

5. Reporting & Knowledge Transfer

• Executive Summary: Clear business impact analysis for C-suite, not 200 pages of Qualys output with fancy formatting.
• Technical Deep Dive: Detailed vulnerability descriptions, reproduction steps when possible, and evidence for your technical team to actually fix issues.
• Direct Tester Access: Walk-through sessions with the actual penetration tester who did the work – not a sales engineer reading from notes.

6. Remediation Support & Validation

• Fix Review: Reviewing your proposed fixes, if needed, before implementation to ensure they actually address root causes, not just symptoms.
• Knowledge Transfer: Teaching your team how attackers think, not just handing over a PDF and disappearing like most vendors.
• Alternative Solutions: Providing multiple remediation options when the “correct” fix would break your business processes or require major architectural changes.

7. Retesting & Certificate of Security

• Complimentary Retesting: Validating all fixes within 60-day window – included in original price because we actually want you to be secure.
• Regression Testing: Ensuring fixes didn’t introduce new vulnerabilities or break existing security controls – because sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
• Certificate Issuance: Earning our Certificate of Security by actually fixing issues, not just acknowledging them in a risk register like PCI allows.

Timeline: Real Testing Takes Time

• Typical Duration: 2-6 weeks depending on actual attack surface complexity
• Not Time-Boxed: Testing continues until thorough, not until arbitrary hours exhausted
• Efficiency Focus: Diagnostics ensure time spent on real targets, not scanning dead space